Divine Beast Adventures

by Srtyi

The world experienced a cataclysmic change, and countless spatial gateways appeared out of thin air. Exotic beasts of all shapes and sizes swarmed out of those aforementioned spatial gateways, forcing the humans to face the crucial moment for their survival. In order to search for a chance at survival, brave warriors from the army and scientific researchers risked their lives and

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Chapter 129: Chapter 129 – Good Fortune Comes To Good People?

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Despite the funny situation, Qiqi and the others felt a surge of warmth in their hearts.

What a good man, ignoring his own safety to save others. How many of those people could you find in the world now?

Just as they wanted to thank him properly, they saw that beastmaster covered in mud fly off to the distance, hanging under his subdued beast.

"Doing good without leaving his name, like the heroes of ancient stories!"

Admiration for their savior grew in their hearts.

In the next moment, the Purple Jade Condor returned, flying above the pond under Qiqi and the others' startled gazes.

With a plop, the muddy man fell back into the water.

If he wanted to wash off the mud on his body, shouldn't he find a cleaner place?

Qiqi and the others were baffled. The way their savior did things really left others confused!

Zhang Che was feeling despair at this moment. Due to the situation from earlier, he actually forgot about his backpack and bow container that had fallen into the pond along with him. There wasn't much in his backpack, only some clothes and dry rations. It wouldn't matter even if he lost them, but he couldn't afford to lose the Falling Star Model X! That cost him millions!

By the time he retrieved the bow container and his backpack from the bottom of the pond and was pulled out of the water once more by the Purple Jade Condor, the beastmasters he saved were only a short distance away from the edge of the pond.

"Hello, can you tell us your name, and where you're from?" a woman with a determined look and exquisite facial features asked nervously, looking at Zhang Che gratefully.

Zhang Che waved his hand profusely, replying, "There's no need for that. We only happened to run into each other by chance and I gave you a hand. It's no big deal. Um, I still have things to do. Bye everyone!"

After finishing his words, the Purple Jade Condor's figure quickly rose, bringing Zhang Che up into the sky, disappearing from the sight of those people.

Qiqi and the others exchanged looks with each other, not knowing how to express what they were feeling at this moment.

After a short while, one of the men said, "Come on, let's head back to the safety zone. This place is too dangerous, and we found the herbs we were looking forl. We can't continue staying here. If we bump into some other powerful exotic beasts, there won't be anyone saving us again."

The others felt the same way, nodding in unison as they got ready to leave this swampland.

They returned to where they had stopped at earlier, wanting to retrieve their backpacks. They were stunned when they looked at the area around them.

They saw glowing cards scattered around on the ground, each of them emitting a bronze light. They were left behind by the water insects killed by the Purple Jade Condor from before. By rough estimation, there were actually close to ten cards lying on the ground!

What to do?

Although they really wanted to return them to that hero, he had already left in a hurry; it was impossible to give them back now.

"Let's use these for now. We lost most of our subdued beasts anyway, and are lacking in strength right now. We're sure to run into more danger later," the man who wanted to confess to Qiqi decided. He added, "But, I have to say this first! We're only borrowing these beast cards. If we happen to bump into our benefactor again in the future, we must return the cards to him!"

Under their current circumstances, this was the best possible suggestion. Everyone came to an agreement and distributed the water insect cards among themselves, quickly branding their spiritual imprints on them before letting out long sighs of reliefs.After Zhang Che was far away from the area Qiqi's group was at, he also let out a long sigh.

Although he didn't care much about his image or whatsoever, it wasn't nice to continue staying there covered in mud. It was better to be like Comrade Lei Feng, doing good without leaving his name. {TL: Lei Feng was a soldier in the People's Liberation Army and is a communist legend in China, characterized as a selfless and modest person.}

Moreover, Zhang Che had no intentions of obtaining any rewards from those beastmasters, nor did he want to have any further relations with them. So be it if his image was tarnished.

After finding a new place to land, and getting the Purple Jade Condor to confirm that there weren't any danger around them, Zhang Che started washing off the mud, while lamenting about his pride. "But, the sense of accomplishment from saving these people from sure-death scenarios is really satisfying!"

In this world, there was probably nothing that made you feel prouder of yourself than saving your fellow humans with your own hands, was there?

If there were, then it must be that you hadn't saved enough of them!

If there came a day where you could save the world once you made your move, countless people would feel endless gratitude towards you, and worship you as a living buddha, sending you looks of admiration and reverence. What would that feel like?

Of course, Zhang Che wouldn't think of being a saint who saved the world. He didn't have the ability, nor would he bother to. He'd only help if he happened to be around and the situation wouldn't threaten his safety.

In the end, humans were different from animals.

He didn't think it would elevate him spiritually or some other bullshit like that. He was only acting out of his conscience.

After spending a lot of time washing the mud off himself, Zhang Che immediately picked up the bow container at the side and opened it. As expected, it was filled with water.

Fortunately, the Falling Star Model X wasn't a traditional bow. It wasn't damaged despite being soaked in water, nor would it affect its functionality.

On the other hand, the clothes in his backpack were soaked through, and were a little more troublesome.

Even so, these were minor issues. He'd just take them out and air-dry them when he rested for the night.

The dry rations in his backpack were packed in vacuum packaging, and weren't soaked in the water for long. There wouldn't be any problems consuming them.

Thinking of that, Zhang Che felt a pang of hunger. He looked up to the sky, and realized that the sky had started to turn dark without him noticing.

-Is it already nearing evening?- Zhang Che was surprised. It seemed like he was unconscious in the heart of the demonic flower for quite some time. Half the day had passed just like that.

Since it was getting late, it was definitely not suitable for him to go hunting exotic beasts any more.

Thus, Zhang Che packed his things and mounted the Purple Jade Condor. He searched around for a bit, found a relatively tall mountain and descended, intending to spend the night there.

When the Purple Jade Condor flew past the extended area of water unhurriedly, heading towards the mountain a few kilometers away, huge waves suddenly rose from the water below them. A long silhouette suddenly burst out of the water and rose into the air, lunging directly for the Purple Jade Condor.

-Hm? We actually ran into a water-type exotic beast here!- Zhang Che was elated. – So it's true that good fortune comes to good people? I just saved six lives and encountered an obviously powerful water-type exotic beast immediately after!-

Despite not having seen the appearance of the exotic beast that shot out of the water, since it could fly into the air, it went to show that this exotic beast's level and quality were definitely not bad!

It'd be fantastic if he could kill it and was lucky enough to obtain a beast card!

The saying "It comes right when you least expect it" was probably referring to occurences like this, right?

Of course, Zhang Che wasn't afraid that this exotic beast would be too powerful. If his subdued beasts couldn't handle it, the Purple Jade Condor could just fly away if push came to shove, ignoring it.

A water-based exotic beast couldn't possibly give chase to the Purple Jade Condor flying in the sky, could it?

The idea was not wrong, but when Zhang Che leaned over and looked down, his face suddenly changed.

"This is… How is it possible that I ran into such a creature!?"

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Chapter 130: Chapter 130 – A-Rank Potential

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"This is… How is it possible that I ran into such a creature!?"

Zhang Che was so shocked that he almost fell off the Purple Jade Condor's back when he saw the appearance of the exotic beast pouncing at them.

Through the blurry water mist, he saw a long, familiar snake-like creature with a pair of straight horns on its head and a pair of claws on its body chasing the Purple Jade Condor.

-Why would there be a dragon here!?-

That was the first thought that came to Zhang Che's mind, nearly scaring him to death.

However, when he got a clear look at the exotic beast's appearance, he realized that this "dragon" was far different from the dragon he met in the west side of the beast world previously.

First, although this fellow had a pair of horns as well, they were only short, straight horns.

Not only that, a dragon would have four claws at the very least, while this exotic beast only had two.

Last but not least, this fellow's figure was more like a python. Its head was round, not as sharp and defined as a dragon's, and its tail was only starting to change to that of a fish, unlike a dragon's tail which fully resembled a beautiful fish's tail.

Most importantly, although this exotic beast could ride the mist and clouds as well, it was obviously not accustomed to it. Its speed wasn't as fast as he imagined.

"Could this be… a python that just evolved into a flood dragon?"

Zhang Che was a little unsure. He had never heard of exotic beasts that could evolve from species to species. Their species were usually determined at birth, unchanged even in adulthood. At the most they'd evolve to the limits of their species.

"Hmm… It could also be that this exotic beast was born a flood dragon to begin with."

Since it was only a flood dragon, Zhang Che wasn't as nervous as before, and got the Purple Jade Condor to maintain the speed it was flying at, allowing this exotic beast to slowly catch up to them.[Cold Abyss Flood Dragon]

Level: Four Star (Level 36)

Quality: Silver

Characteristics: Skilled at Manipulating Water, Able to Ride on Clouds and Mist to Fly in the Air For A Short Period of Time

Weakness: Greatly Weakens When Away From Water For A Long Period of Time

Innate Attribute: Arctic Breath, Able to Breathe Out Water Vapor With Cold Effects, Causing Frost Damage To Its Prey

Potential: A RankWhen this exotic beast came within the range of Zhang Che's data eyes, he was frozen with shock after he saw the information flashing before his eyes.

An A-Rank potential exotic beast!

This Cold Abyss Flood Dragon actually had A-Rank potential!

-I have to capture it as my pet. This fellow is too good to pass up on!- The thought gushed out from Zhang Che's heart almost immediately.

Zhang Che, who already had two pets, naturally knew that taming an exotic beast into becoming his pet was much more advantageous than killing it and obtaining its beast card.

Unlike subdued beasts, who were pretty much only able to follow orders mechanically, pets had their own souls and a mind of their own. Their combat capability would also be fully inherited, not needing to train and battle for a long time before being able to display their full battle prowess.

The most important point was that Zhang Che couldn't guarantee that he'd get a beast card after killing the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

This was an exotic beast with A-Rank potential! If he was unlucky and didn't get a beast card, wouldn't he die from regret?

Also, another reason was that Zhang Che couldn't freaking use the beast card even if he was lucky enough to obtain one from this exotic beast! He was only a Tier Three beastmaster for now, and he needed to put some work in before advancing to Tier Four.

Pets, however, were different. There didn't seem to be a correlation between Zhang Che's beastmaster tier and the level of pets he could employ, only requiring him to have the capability to tame the exotic beast.

Back when Zhang Che tamed Hanxue, he was only a Tier Two beastmaster, while the latter was a three-star exotic beast!

Watching the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon slowly flying closer to him, Zhang Che grew fonder of it the longer he looked at it. He was almost treating it as his pet already.

Even so, this fellow was not Zhang Che's pet yet.

"Lure it along, Ah Zi. Fly over to that mountain over there."

Although the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was a four-star exotic beast, it was obviously no match for the Purple Jade Condor. After all, the Purple Jade Condor was dark gold-quality, with a difference of two quality tiers between them.

If this fellow was a gold-quality beast, Zhang Che would have had the Purple Jade Condor fly as fast as possible, and get as far away as possible. He definitely wouldn't harbor such extravagant hopes like he was doing now.

However, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was a beast who flourished in water. Once it realized that it couldn't win, it could just dive into the water below, leaving the Purple Jade Condor unable to do anything but watch.

Therefore, Zhang Che first had to pull the snake out of its hole, luring this fellow to the mountain ahead. There would only be a chance of taming it after he sealed its path of escape.

As for whether the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon would fall for his trick and chase him? Zhang Che felt that he had nothing to worry at all.

This fellow was only at silver quality, and yet it dared to sneak attack the Purple Jade Condor who was stronger than it. It was obviously a case of a newborn baby not knowing the terrors of the world, with only a bunch of energy and no brain. It was impossible for it not to fall for the trick.

As expected, after discovering its "prey" was actually flying away, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon immediately gave chase, riding on that mass of cloud and mist. As it gave chase, it opened its mouth wide and let out a deep mooing sound, like an old cow calling its young.

The distance of several kilometers was covered in the blink of an eye. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon didn't realize that it had fell into a trap at all. Seeing its prey ahead flying slower made it grew even more excited and it increased its speed, leaving Zhang Che greatly surprised.

-It seems like the short flight mentioned in this fellow's characteristics wasn't that short, after all. Looking at the way its flying, it was very possible that it can fly for at least half an hour.- Zhang Che grew even more excited. The higher capability this Cold Abyss Flood Dragon showed, the happier Zhang Che was. This would be his third pet. Of course it'd be better if it was stronger!

Mmm, Zhang Che was of the firm opinion that he could tame this Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

When the Purple Jade Condor flew above the mountain, a hint of doubt finally flashed in the eyes of the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon. However, its blind courage outshone its capabilities in the end, and it immediately followed right behind.

"Lower your altitude, Ah Zi. Let me get down first."

What followed was sure to be a bitter fight. Zhang Che surely didn't dare to continue staying on the Purple Jade Condor's back. If that was the case, it'd be good if he wasn't severely injured from being caught up in the battle, let alone taming the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

The Purple Jade Condor quickly descended. When it was only about a dozen meters above the tall trees on the mountain, Zhang Che equipped the Swamp Crocodile King armor and wielding the Rotten Ent Prowler whip, jumped off the Purple Jade Condor's back for the second time today.

Zhang Che swung his right hand while he was in midair. The long whip instantly shot out a dozen meters and latched tightly onto the crown of a tall tree. After that, his body swung by momentum along the arc of the long whip, and he crashed into the top of the tree.

Naturally, Zhang Che didn't mind a collision of such degree. The Swamp Crocodile King armor perfectly dissipated all of the impact, leaving him unhurt.

Now, the key was whether the Purple Jade Condor could suppress the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon and hold it here, not allowing it to escape into the water.

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Chapter 131: Chapter 131 – The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon That Submits to Its Circumstances

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It was very obvious that since the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon had chased them all the way here, it had no intentions of returning empty-handed.

Thus, when the Purple Jade Condor lowered its altitude to let Zhang Che down, the flood dragon immediately grabbed onto this opportunity and rode the cloudy mist, lunging at it.

Hmm, it was likely that Zhang Che's tiny figure didn't register as a threat in the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's eyes. It didn't even bother sparing a glance at this insignificant speck of dust. Its full attention was on the Purple Jade Condor's huge figure.

There was a wave of rustling as Zhang Che crashed into the thick crown of the tree, then jumped off it, slightly disoriented. He found a place that provided a good viewpoint and looked into the sky, watching the battle leisurely.

A battle of such level naturally had no openings for Zhang Che to interfere in. The Mutated Puffersword's level and quality were too low; the Sonic Wave skill couldn't even tickle the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

None of the rest of Zhang Che's subdued beasts could rise to the occasion, either, not to mention that the battle was taking place in the air. The Fiery Scorpion and the rest of his subdued beasts could only stand by and watch.

-Hm? Oh, right. From the looks of it, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's physical defense shouldn't be too strong, right?-

Zhang Che suddenly thought of this, and immediately summoned the frisky monkey with a wave of his hand.

"Zhizhi!" The moment the Gluttony Monkey appeared, he cried out at Zhang Che with some resentment in his voice. He was confined within Zhang Che's spiritual sea for most of the day, and the boredom was getting to him. He wanted to come out to take a breather all this while, but his owner forcefully kept him in, driving him a little mad.

Naturally, the frisky monkey had no idea that Zhang Che was enveloped in the heart of the demonic flower for half the day. How could he have let him out?

"Alright, alright. Don't complain. I'll make you some roasted meat when we're done!" Zhang Che said. He patted the back of the frisky monkey's head and pointed to the sky, adding, "Shoot that fellow down if it tries to run away after losing the fight. Can do you that?"

"Zhizhi!" the frisky monkey cried out, indicating Zhang Che could leave it to him! For the sake of roasted meat, he had to do it, even if he couldn't!

In the sky above the mountain, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was currently tangling with the Purple Jade Condor.

Originally, Zhang Che had thought that it would be very easy for the Purple Jade Condor to bring down this fellow, but from the looks of it, it truly was worthy of being a beast that could evolve into a real dragon. Although it wasn't as fast as the Purple Jade Condor, its agility wasn't inferior in any way.

Moreover, this fellow's innate attribute was too good. It was actually able to breathe out cold white frosty air continuously, leaving the Purple Jade Condor feeling rather apprehensive, not daring to get too close to it.

A battle that was supposed to one-sided actually became an even match!

However, Zhang Che wasn't discouraged in the slightest.

Instead, he grew even more excited. This fellow was actually able to fight against another beast whose overall strength was higher than it! If he could successfully tame it, he'd gain another powerful combatant, and be able to move unhindered in watery areas. He wouldn't be afraid of encountering another difficult opponent in this area in the southeast of the beast world.

Even so, it was unacceptable for this battle to drag on any longer. Seeing as the sky was quickly turning dark, Zhang Che didn't want any further troubles. It'd be best if he could settle this as soon as possible.

"Ah Zi, lure it here!"

The Purple Jade Condor executed Zhang Che's orders faithfully, feigning to be no match for the flood dragon, retreating as it fought, flying towards where Zhang Che was.

Seeing the Purple Jade Condor was "running in defeat", the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon grew excited and gave chase, riding on a layer of cloudy mist.

Down in the forest, the frisky monkey was wielding the Falling Star Model X, the bowstring slightly drawn. The M-type armor-piercing arrow was nocked on the bowstring, waiting for an opportunity.

"Fire!" Zhang Che suddenly shouted when the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon caught up to the Purple Jade Condor and opened its mouth to breathe out its arctic breath. The Gluttony Monkey at his side let loose the drawn bowstring of the Falling Star Model X in his hands. A ferocious cold light shot out, flying over a hundred meters in an instant, entering the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's open mouth.

Blood splattered in the air. The long arrow shot through the back of mouth, exiting from the back of its head. The arrow continued flying in the air for some distance before finally losing all momentum, falling into the forest.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon couldn't help but let out a low, pained roar after suffering such a sudden severe hit. Riding its gradually thinning cloud, it immediately turned to escape back in the direction of the water.

It finally realized that it had fall into a trap.

Even so, how could Zhang Che let it run away just like that, after going through such troubles to lure it out?

The Purple Jade Condor who was holding back all this time finally unleashed its true powers, immediately activating the Wing Blade skill. It caught up in the blink of an eye in the form of a purple lightning, grabbing the back of the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's head with its talons, and dragging it down to the forest below.

In order to prevent it from directly killing the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, Zhang Che didn't dare let the Purple Jade Condor to attack it directly with the Wing Blade, only making use of the high speed after activating the skill to catch this long wyrm.

After being caught by the Purple Jade Condor, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon tried its best to resist, but all it got in exchange was the Purple Jade Condor's talons piercing deeper into the back of its head, causing it so much pain that it didn't dare to move any more.

It would really die if it continued struggling!

Although the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was a little reckless, how could it not be afraid when its life was at stake?

Zhang Che originally expected having to go through a lot of trouble to tame this fellow. He was all prepared; if this fellow wouldn't give in no matter what, he'd beat it half to death and let the rainbow crystal heal it, then beat it half to death again!

He would keep repeating this like a cycle. The time would come when it couldn't take it any longer!

However, who would've thought that this reckless Cold Abyss Flood Dragon would submit to him the moment it was faced with the threat of death? It lowered its head obediently in front of Zhang Che, allowing the rainbow crystal to brand its mysterious rainbow talismanic rune onto its soul, becoming Zhang Che's third pet.

"As expected, a wise man understands and adapts to the circumstances! It looks like you're not that hot-headed after all, not hesitating to lower your head when the situation calls for it." {TL: Cause the dragon is cold. Ayyy!}

Zhang Che looked at the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon prostrating before him. His body was as thick as a pillar, his back green and stomach white, measuring almost eight meters long. Zhang Che had an excited smile on his face, nearly bursting out in laughter.

{TL: Since the dragon is officially Zhang Che's pet at this point, I'll be switching my reference from it to him.}

A-Rank potential!

Zhang Che felt immense joy every time he thought of this attribute. This represented a total of five chances of advancement! A super potential found in less than one in ten thousand!

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was already a silver-quality beast. If he advanced five tiers, what realm would that be? Zhang Che didn't dare to imagine it!

He only knew that this fellow would definitely become one of his greatest powers!

"Your injuries aren't light; you'd better get into my spiritual sea obediently to recuperate," Zhang Che said, caressing the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's rather round head, and sent the beast into his spiritual sea with a thought, letting him bask in the rainbow crystal's fog-like energy, and recover from the grave injuries he suffered.

"Zhizhi!" Seemingly feeling that he was being given the cold shoulder, the frisky monkey at his side cried out resentfully, followed by acting out the motions of chewing a pig's trotter.

"You glutton, you're actually jealous now!" Zhang Che slapped the frisky monkey, laughing. "Don't be so anxious. I don't see any exotic beasts on this mountain. Wait till Hanming is recovered and I'll get him to catch some big fish. We'll be having roasted fish tonight!"

{TL: Hanming is the flood dragon. His official species is called a Han Ming Jiao.}

"Zhizhi, zhizhi!" Although he had no idea what his owner meant by roasted fish, the frisky monkey's instincts told him that it was sure to be something very delicious!

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Chapter 132: Chapter 132 – Eating A Miss Huang In One Go

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When Hanming's injuries were all healed, he was summoned from Zhang Che's spiritual sea, moving about energetically. Zhang Che immediately issued Hanming his first mission: catch a few big fish from the lake.

There were ordinary birds, insects, and animals in the beast world, too, but due to the exotic beasts hunting them without restraint, their amounts were on the smaller side.

However, seeing as the mountain they were on was surrounded by water on all sides, even if there weren't many fish, there would be enough for them.

"I wonder what the fish in the beast world taste like. I hope the fishy smell isn't too strong. With the little bit of spices we have here, they'll be inedible if I can't get rid of the smell."

While waiting for the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's return, Zhang Che started building a bonfire in an open space.

The bonfire slowly burned brighter. Zhang Che went to chop some tree branches and built a rack, hanging his soaked clothes out to dry them.

Fortunately, Zhang Che had kept the spices and dry rations in the vacuum packaging. Otherwise, not only would he have no dinner tonight, he wouldn't even have spices for roasting meat.

"I wonder if there's space-attributed exotic beasts. It's really troublesome not having a place to store things…"

In novels, weren't spatial storage accessories a must-have item for the main character? Why hadn't he even seen the shadow of one after coming here for so long?

While he was cursing inwardly, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon returned, riding on a cloud of mist. His claws were holding two big fish, each about half a meter long. They resembled the freshwater fish found on Mercury; who knew what they tasted like?

There was no spring water on the mountain, and it was even more impossible for there to be a creek. Zhang Che could only get the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon working again, having him hold onto the fish with his claws and make a trip with Zhang Che to the mountainside, gutting and cleaning the fish using the clear lake water.

"Hmm? There's not much fishy smell on them!" What surprised Zhang Che was that the fish found here only had a very mild fishy smell. His hands were bloodied after gutting the fish. Despite that, he didn't notice much of an odor. There was basically no foul smell after adding some spices onto them and roasting them over the fire.

The night sky had turned fully dark by the time the two big fish hanging over the fire were fully cooked. Waves upon waves of tempting fragrance spread out, drawing Zhang Che into digging in.

He wasn't afraid of the heat, tearing a piece off and putting it in his mouth. His eyes lit up at the taste.

"As expected of an all-natural, unpolluted environment! It tastes heavenly!" Zhang Che praised. Then, he noticed that two pairs of shining eyes were staring at him from the side. He glanced over, and, well, not only was the Gluttony Monkey drooling and looking at him with a face full of anticipation, even the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's mouth was open, his eyes filled with great desire.

"You're gluttons, all of you!" Zhang Che sighed, shaking his head. He tore off a piece of roasted fish that was big enough to fill his stomach and gave the rest to his salivating pets.

However, after Zhang Che finished his piece of roasted fish that weighed a few kilograms, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

Before he started eating the fish, he was only feeling a little hungry, but it was still manageable. However, when he finished his share, not only did he not feel full, he felt even hungrier than before, to the point that it was unbearable, as if he had starved for three full days.

"Is this for real? Did my appetite increase after being altered by the demonic flower?" Zhang Che suddenly realized. It seemed logical. If he didn't eat more, where would his herculean strength come from?

Feeling the unbearable hunger, Zhang Che shifted his gaze to the frisky monkey and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon. However, he discovered that these two gluttons had already finished their roasted fish and were looking at him as well.

"Alright, looks like we have to continue roasting fish tonight!" Zhang Che curled his lips. He directly brought his pets down to the watery area at the foot of the mountain. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was very self-aware and plunged into the water on his own initiative, leaving the two others watching by the shore.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was a hegemon-like existence in these watery areas. It didn't take much effort for him to catch a few more, returning to the surface after only a short while and tossing two big fish to Zhang Che, before diving back into the water.

Well, this hot-headed fellow also understood that two fish were not enough for them at all.

"Here, watch how I gut the fish. This will be your job from now on."

If it was something the frisky monkey could do on his behalf, Zhang Che definitely wouldn't do it himself. Who knew how many more fish they had to gut later on? He didn't want to get the smell of fish all over on him. As mild as it might be, the odor was still there.

The frisky monkey could shoot arrows and pitch tents. Gutting fish would naturally not be an issue. After watching Zhang Che's demonstration, he immediately took over the dagger and started working on another fish.

Knowing the frisky monkey's learning ability, Zhang Che even handed over the job of roasting the fish to him in the end, while he himself was only responsible for giving the orders and watching the fire. It truly couldn't get any easier.

During this night, the bonfire on the mountain burned until deep in the night.On this night, the fish in the lake were in for a bad time. Who knew how many were caught by the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon?

Zhang Che was shocked to realize that he had been altered into a human-shaped monster by the demonic flower. Not only was his strength shocking, even his appetite had grown so big that he felt scared.

"I ate five freaking roasted fish in one go!"

This was truly a tragic truth. Although Zhang Che didn't dare believe it, he had no choice but to accept this cruel reality.

The fish found in the beast world were extremely plump. Coupled with the fact that the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon only caught the biggest ones, Zhang Che estimated that the five fish he ate weighed no less than a hundred kilograms, even after subtracting the weight of their heads and bones!

That was comparable to Tienan's weight…

Zhang Che really felt a deep sense of helplessness. He would surely have to spend much time in the future finding food. Swordsmanship and archery practice would take another chunk of his time… How troubling…

After eating his fill, what followed after was naturally a night of good sleep.

Zhang Che rose early the next morning and got the frisky monkey to pack his tent, ready to set off and leave this area.

The objective of his trip here was to get himself a powerful water-type beast. Zhang Che had already accomplished this mission, his results exceeding his expectation. Naturally he wouldn't stay here any longer. After all, most water-based exotic beasts were too restrained, their strength falling drastically after leaving the waters.

After all, not every water-based exotic beast was comparable to the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

Even if it was a Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, its strength would fall greatly after leaving the water for too long. There was no way to guarantee its combat capability for the whole day.

Since that was the case, what meaning was there in continuing to hunt water-type exotic beasts?

Most importantly, Zhang Che didn't want to continue eating fish for breakfast. He wanted to change things up a little. It'd be best if he could hunt a huge-sized exotic beast that was enough to fill all three of their stomachs.

After packing his things, Zhang Che sent the Gluttony Monkey and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon back to his spiritual sea, and jumped onto the Purple Jade Condor's wide back. The condor pushed itself off the ground and beat its wings fiercely, heading to the northeast of the beast world.

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Chapter 133: Chapter 133 – A Paradise For The Strong, A Hell For The Weak

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The reason why Zhang Che decided to head northeast was because he heard tales that it was an extended mountainous region. The taller areas were covered in a thick layer of snow all year round, and was said to be a cold, bitter place.

As the saying went, a bad environment makes bad civilians… no, bad beasts. Although there weren't many exotic beasts in that area, their level were definitely not low. You could find three-star beasts, or even four-star beasts, everywhere once you ventured slightly deeper into it.

Not only that, it was rumored that huge amounts of powerful exotic beasts lived deep in that mountain range. It was simply a paradise for the strong, and hell for the weak.

Now that Zhang Che had successfully gained a water-type pet, his only objective was to hunt as many three-star or above exotic beasts as possible to raise his beastmaster tier.

As such, the northeast of the beast world was exactly what he was looking for.

As for whether that area was too dangerous… Zhang Che wasn't really worried about that.

What was dangerous was only the mountainous terrain. As long as he acted more carefully, he shouldn't be unlucky enough to bump into an exotic beast he couldn't defeat, and which had to be a flying-type beast, to boot! Otherwise, none of them could catch up to him!

Wasn't it said to be a paradise for the strong, and hell for the weak?

Although Zhang Che didn't think of himself as one of the strong ones, he definitely didn't belong to the weak, either.

"Hm? Oh, right, that ugly toad!"

Not long after the Purple Jade Condor started flying, Zhang Che suddenly remembered about that bunch of ugly toads that embarrassed him yesterday.

Ten years was too long a wait for a gentleman's revenge!

Now that Zhang Che had the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, together with the Purple Jade Condor whose strength wasn't inferior to that Demon Eye Toad at all, he could totally go find it for some "catching up".

As for that lone island that left Zhang Che feeling apprehensive, since that demonic flower was already "devoured" by him, and he wouldn't get on that island any more, there wouldn't be any danger there.

However, when Zhang Che returned to that swampland full of joy and expectation, and searched the place where he was ambushed by the group of toads, he discovered, to his shock, that he couldn't find any tadpoles, not to mention any toads.

"Could it be that those ugly toads expected that I'd be back for revenge and migrated in advance?"

Zhang Che felt depressed. The beam shot from the demon eye on the Demon Eye Toad's back was a powerful skill that even the Purple Jade Condor fell to. Not only that, the Demon Eye Toad was able to escape unscathed in the battle that came after, despite the Purple Jade Condor activating its Wing Blade skill to retaliate. Its level and quality were definitely not low.

Now, this powerful ugly toad was gone without a trace. It would be impossible to find it again; this swampland was too vast. It was as hard as finding a needle in a haystack.

"This is what they call 'destined to meet, but weren't fated to be together'!" Zhang Che sighed. He could only set off once more, heading to the northeast.As the Purple Jade Condor flew towards their destination, Zhang Che wasn't in the mood to observe the waters below to see if there were any exotic beasts worth hunting. All he wanted was to get to the northeast of the beast world as soon as possible. Would there be any lack of exotic beasts for him to hunt when he got there?

A streak of purple lightning flew across the sky. As they were hurrying on their way, Zhang Che got the Purple Jade Condor to fly at the breakneck speed of about four hundred kilometers per hour, almost the limits of where he could still breathe freely.

If they flew any faster, Zhang Che would have to worry about damage to his lungs after flying for long periods of time.Just like that, the Purple Jade Condor flew for nearly four hours, flying past the vast watery area, and a wide, extended area of hills. In the end, it even flew past a boundless grass plain, before finally seeing a black, wavy iron wall on the horizon.

That was where the outskirts of the northeast mountain range were.

"Make a stop here, Ah Zi. We'll find something here to eat first." Since the mountain range was within sight, Zhang Che wasn't feeling impatient anymore.

It had been around four hours since he woke up, and he had yet to have a single grain enter his mouth. His stomach had been protesting all this while. He had to eat something.

It just so happened that Zhang Che saw a herd of large-sized herbivorous exotic beasts running below, where the grass plain and mountain range intersected. The handful of exotic beasts chasing closely behind them were obviously predators hunting for their prey.

The situation was perfect. He could round them all up in one go. Not only could he obtain beast cards, he could also hunt his breakfast here.

After receiving its orders, the Purple Jade Condor immediately changed directions and dove straight down.An hour later, Zhang Che casually tossed aside a big thigh bone as he stood up, his lips greasy. He walked over to the creek and laid down, drinking huge mouthfuls of water directly from the stream, before standing up with a satisfied look.

Naturally, Zhang Che didn't have to worry whether the water was poisonous. While he was carrying a herbivorous exotic beast known as a Bramble-Horned Deer, which the frisky monkey had killed, over to the creek, there were quite a number of exotic beasts drinking water here.

The Bramble-Horned Deer was quite big, weighing over two hundred and fifty kilograms, satisfying both Zhang Che and the frisky monkey's stomach. The delicious meat left Zhang Che lamenting.

He didn't have any spatial storage equipment. Otherwise, he'd really want to kill all these exotic beasts, which were only one-star black iron-quality, and store them in his spatial storage, taking one out whenever he wanted to eat. If the conditions allowed, he could even boil or fry the meat, trying different ways to eat them. If not, roasting was the way to go.

After eating his fill, Zhang Che sent the resentful frisky monkey back into his spiritual sea and hopped on his biological airplane, the Purple Jade Condor, before setting off for their destination in the distance once more.

Looking down from the sky, it was rare to see any beastmasters in this area, even if it was only the outskirts. The powerful beastmasters would all be venturing deep into the mountain range, while the weak ones wouldn't casually come here to their deaths.

Of course, the main reason was that the population of Qian Wei City was really not much. There were only so many beastmasters around. In the boundless beast world, other than the areas around the safety zone, it truly wasn't easy to bump into other people.

The cities around Qian Wei City were in similar situations, too. All of them weren't considered densely populated. Most beastmasters would only head into the spatial gateways found in their respective cities. Who would waste the time and energy to go to other cities?

Of course, there were also a minority who would head into other spatial gateways for various reasons, mostly due to the unique resources found near them.

Those reasons made Zhang Che feel he was playing a single-player game after entering the beast world. Most of the time he wouldn't even bump into other beastmasters for days.

"I suppose the number of beastmasters will only become noticeably higher when I head into the spatial gateway in Bei Du City…"

As the administrative center of the Hua Xia region, Bei Du City was a super large city. Together with the satellite cities around it, the population reached a total of several hundred million! Even though there were many spatial gateways there, under such a dense population, the beast worlds beyond each and every spatial gateway would be more highly populated by beastmasters, or at the very least, the areas around the safety zone would be so.

Although it had been thirty-six years since the dawn of the new age, and humans had learned much of the beast worlds behind the spatial gateways, there was still no definite answer to whether these beast worlds behind the different spatial gateways belonged to the same plane.

Some were of the opinion that the beast worlds should be connected, because other than some unique resources like rare herbs or exotic beasts, most low-level exotic beasts that flocked together or herbs could be found behind multiple other spatial gateways, as well.

However, the others were of a different opinion, that the beast worlds were independent existences. Otherwise, how could anyone explain that there had been no instances of someone exiting the beast world from the entrance of another spatial gateway?

Those of the former opinion had a reasonable argument to make to this, too.

They thought that the beast world was most likely a vast world so wide that the exits of each and every spatial gateway were dispersed equally across this boundless world.

As the distance was too far between two gateways that connected to the real world, it was impossible for humans to cross such a distance with their current strength.

Supporters of both theories insisted on their views and had argued endlessly for over thirty years. None of them were able to convince the other.

Of course, these things weren't of concern to Zhang Che at all. He only hoped that he could successfully advance to Tier Four in this mountain range in the upcoming days!

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Chapter 134: Chapter 134 – Experience Rising Quickly

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As Zhang Che still had no idea how the exotic beasts were distributed across this mountain range, nor did he know where the powerful exotic beasts would be moving about. He didn't dare to go too deep in, despite riding on the Purple Jade Condor. He only dared to scout within several kilometers of the edge of the area, before finding a place to land.

This place was truly worthy of its reputation as "a paradise for the strong, and hell for the weak".

During his scouting, Zhang Che saw a team of beastmasters suddenly ambushed by a few powerful exotic beasts while they were walking along a valley, resulting in one death and two injured in the blink of an eye.

In fact, those beastmasters weren't weak, but they didn't expect the exotic beasts to suddenly jump out from a tiny gap. As they were caught unprepared, it was inevitable that there were casualties among them.

Originally, Zhang Che was still considering whether he should go give them a hand, but he saw the remaining beastmasters immediately going into a defensive formation when they reacted to the situation, fully capable of fighting back, and thus dropped the thought.

Since he wasn't needed, naturally he wouldn't stick his finger into other people's matters casually.

He wouldn't be able to explain himself even with a few more mouths if he was misunderstood as trying to snatch their exotic beasts.

As such, Zhang Che didn't care about what happened below any more, and had the Purple Jade Condor fly away. He chose a safe place to land and began his own hunt.

The mountain summits at the outskirts of the mountain range weren't very tall, but due to their close proximity, narrow valleys could be seen everywhere.

Zhang Che was currently standing on a mountain waist, looking down at a deep, meandering valley below. His first target, or rather, his first group of targets, were wandering leisurely in that valley.

It was a group of dark-scaled lizard-like exotic beasts. Their bodies were huge, measuring over four meters long. The dark scales on their bodies were emitting a faint glow. Just one look at it and you could tell their levels weren't low.

At the very least, this was a three-star exotic beast.

However, these huge lizards were gathered in quite a large group. Quality-wise, they shouldn't be anything surprising, perhaps not even reaching silver-quality.

Even so, what Zhang Che fancied the most right now was exactly this kind of exotic beasts.

He wanted to rise to Tier Four as soon as possible, and for that he needed to kill large amounts of three-star or higher exotic beasts. Their quality couldn't be too high, or he'd need too much time to hunt them. It wouldn't be worth it, then.

As for getting more powerful beasts in his team, Zhang Che wasn't worried about that at all.

When he rose to Tier Four, he would have the Scarlet Flame Drake by his side. He could totally explore deeper into this mountain range. It was rumored that powerful beasts roamed freely in there. At that time, even picking those that caught his eye would take up too much of his time.

Facing off against three-star or higher exotic beasts, the Original Combat Body-type subdued beasts he could bring out were a little embarrassing.

Other than the main pillar, the Purple Jade Condor, no matter if it was the Fiery Scorpion or Wind Shadow Wolf (Well, this fellow was originally forcefully retired by Zhang Che, but now that Zhang Che devoured the energy of the demonic flower, the size of his spiritual sea was expanded by half. Being able to employ four more subdued beasts, he could only bring it out of retirement since he had no other beasts to use), although their strength were higher than ordinary three-star bronze-quality beasts, that was only in one-on-one scenarios.

Under circumstances where he had to take on a whole group of exotic beasts in one go, those two fellows weren't helpful in the least.

The Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly, however, was different. Since its quality had risen to silver, as long as its opponents weren't three-star silver-quality or higher, its confusion-inducing powder could still prove to be extremely useful.

Other than that… Zhang Che suddenly realized, he had no other usable Original Combat Body-type subdued beasts!

On the other hand, Zhang Che actually had a few other cards which were incomparably rare to other beastmasters, like weapon-type, armor-type, and fusion transformation-type beast cards!

"Should I be happy, or should I be happy?"

Although he should obviously be happy about this, at this moment, Zhang Che would rather have two more Original Combat Body-type subdued beasts at his side. This was a classic case of overwhelming defense and underwhelming offense.

Even so, things would get better. When Zhang Che rose to Tier Four, he would be able to use the Rock Tortoise and Scarlet Flame Drake. Things would turn for the better then! Helpless about it, Zhang Che could only console himself this way.

"Ah Zi, go feel out how strong those beasts are!"

The Purple Jade Condor took off from a rocky platform on the mountain waist after Zhang Che gave the order. It shot out like a bolt of purple lightning, quickly diving down to the valley below.

Zhang Che wasn't idling about back on the mountain, either. He summoned both the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon and Gluttony Monkey. Although the former's combat potential was largely restricted in such an environment, there wouldn't be any problem for him insuring Zhang Che's safety.

As for the frisky monkey, naturally he was wielding the Falling Star Model X, taking any opportunity that arose to shoot at the huge lizard's vulnerable spots, like their eyes, and lighten the burden on the Purple Jade Condor.

It had to be mentioned that those huge lizards' senses for danger was truly not bad. They were immediately alerted the instant the Purple Jade Condor dove towards the valley, raising their triangular heads one after another, flicking their long, thin tongues like snakes, focusing their cold gazes on the approaching Purple Jade Condor.

It was obvious that those fellows weren't actually treating the Purple Jade Condor as much of a threat.

Zhang Che couldn't be happier about this. He was afraid that those lizards would be too cowardly, escaping at the slightest threat into the caves in the or the gaps in the valley. The Purple Jade Condor wouldn't be able to do a thing then.

Well, what need was there to feel them out now? Just attack them directly!

Under Zhang Che's new order, the Purple Jade Condor let out a crisp cry as its wings emitted a bright glow. Its speed doubled, reaching directly above where the huge lizards were in an instant.

Snap! A huge lizard standing at the frontmost couldn't dodge in time, its body was sliced in two from the neck down by the Purple Jade Condor's left wing, quickly turning into a streak of light and dissipating.

[You Killed a Dark-Scaled Lizard. Obtained 6 Points of Soul Force.=

The beautiful sound of notification rang in Zhang Che's mind. He couldn't help but smile slightly. -Looks like I was right. These huge lizards are three-star bronze-quality exotic beasts.-

After that, Zhang Che felt as if an experience bar was filling up right before his eyes. As far as he could see, the group of lizards that numbered at least fifty didn't try to escape at all. Instead, each of them were charging towards the Purple Jade Condor.

-Are those Dark-Scaled Lizards' brains filled with glue or something!?-

Despite knowing that the powerful foe before them wasn't something they could hope to match, they actually didn't think to make a run for it, and instead rushed up to their deaths. Zhang Che was really, really happy about this!

What came after went without saying. Even if those Dark-Scaled Lizards tried to jump at the Purple Jade Condor to bite at it, or swing their tails, they were unable to block the Purple Jade Condor's skill effectively.

What a joke! The Purple Jade Condor was a three-star dark gold-quality powerful beast! Those Dark-Scaled Lizards were merely bronze-quality. There was a difference of three quality tiers between them! It would truly be strange if they could still cause trouble for the Purple Jade Condor.

Zhang Che could only hear snapping sounds ringing out endlessly. Dark-Scaled Lizards fell one after another, their bodies tragically sliced in half. Some of them turned into streaks of light and dissipated, while some turned into a bronze beast cards. They weren't even able to make the Purple Jade Condor break a sweat.

Watching the Dark-Scaled Lizards charge to their valiant deaths, Zhang Che couldn't help but feel doubtful, in addition to his excitement.

-Could there really be exotic beasts that aren't afraid of death?-

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Chapter 135: Chapter 135 – A Hidden Place

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While Zhang Che was still feeling doubtful, all of the Dark-Scaled Lizards were killed by the Purple Jade Condor. Notification sounds rang one after another mechanically, forming a rhythm.

"As expected, killing exotic beasts that group together yields the most soul force points!" Zhang Che was almost drunk on the sounds of notification going off in his head.

Naturally, now wasn't the time to get distracted. The pack of Dark-Scaled Lizards left about a dozen beast cards behind, just waiting for Zhang Che to pick them up.

"Let's go down, Hanming!"

Zhang Che recalled the Gluttony Monkey and beckoned the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon at his side, jumping on the latter's back. Zhang Che sat on Hanming's back with his legs, securing himself in place.

Following Zhang Che's order, a layer of cloudy mist emerged around the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon and he took off, flying down to the valley below.

Just as the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon began his flight, Zhang Che opened his eyes wide, exclaiming in shock, "Damn!"

When the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was flying, the strength of the oncoming wind was negated by more than half as it blew into the surrounding cloudy mist. By the time the wind reached Zhang Che, there wasn't much speed behind it.

– This fellow actually had such a hidden ability?- Zhang Che immediately went wild with joy!

If this ability got stronger as the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's quality increased, wouldn't that mean that Zhang Che wouldn't have to worry about the wind as he flew on this fellow, and would be able to fly as fast as he wanted?

There was almost no doubt that this was the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's unique ability!

Zhang Che nearly wept with joy! Although the Purple Jade Condor's flying speed was really high, he wasn't able to withstand the strength of the oncoming wind when he rode it.

Not only that, Zhang Che could clearly tell that the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was much more stable. He only needed to sit on his back, without having to worry about falling off.

With that, his hands were free and Zhang Che could even wield a bow himself, launching long range attacks at their enemies.

There were simply too many advantages to this. Just thinking about it left Zhang Che feeling great.

The only regret was that as of now, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon could only maintain flight for about half an hour. He just couldn't last long.

In that case, why not let him pop a little blue pill? {TL Note: A certain well-known pill for bedroom wrestling.}

If Zhang Che were to find an herb capable of raising an exotic beast's quality right now, he would definitely not hesitate to let the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon eat it, and not give it to the stronger Purple Jade Condor.

It couldn't be helped; the riding experience provided by the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was too good compared to the Purple Jade Condor. It was better by at least a few levels!

While Zhang Che was happily fantasizing about the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon being able to fly for a longer period of time after advancing in quality, he didn't realize that they had already flown down to the valley.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon turned his head around to look at Zhang Che doubtfully, not understanding why his owner was not getting off of him. Did he have some weird hobbies?

"Eh? We're here already?" Zhang Che suddenly came back to himself after being stared at by the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon innocently for some time. He realized he was already in the valley, and hurriedly jumped off the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's back, recalling him back into his spiritual sea.

This fellow's flying ability was very useful, especially in such complicated terrain. It was incomparable to the Purple Jade Condor, who needed to beat its wings to fly. Therefore, Zhang Che decided to recall him back into his spiritual sea and let him immerse himself in the rainbow crystal's fog to recover. When needed, Zhang Che could immediately summon him.

The Purple Jade Condor, who wiped out the group of Dark-Scaled Lizards effortlessly, was currently standing proudly on a protruded rock in the valley, waiting for Zhang Che's next instruction.

The next order came very soon.

He sent the Purple Jade Condor to scout out the situation around them from the sky, while he, as the leader, remained here to clean up the mess, which meant picking up the beast cards scattered on the ground.

This job could be given to the Gluttony Monkey, but Zhang Che enjoyed the feeling of stuffing the cards into his pocket one by one. As such, he was happy to do the job, just not to the extent of laughing out loud while doing so.[Dark-Scaled Lizard]

Level: Three Star (Level 27)

Quality: Bronze

Characteristics: Its Scales Provide Strong Defense, Tail Whipping Attacks Are Swift and Rather Destructive

Weakness: Defense Around Its Throat is Lacking

Potential: E Rank

Cultivating Directions: No Value In CultivatingZhang Che was speechless after seeing the attributes of the Dark-Scaled Lizards.

They were actually trash without any value in cultivating them. Theoretically, they could only advance a tier in their level and quality. If placed in the hands of those beast card cultivators, there wouldn't be much hope of them advancing.

"But, I can use them to increase my experience points in Fusion. Also…"

Zhang Che's pupils rolled around as he thought of another benefit. These Dark-Scaled Lizards were three-star exotic beasts. After fusing them, they would become four-star. Despite their lacking quality, they were still mid-tier beast cards, and could probably fetch a decent price.

Zhang Che looked at the Dark-Scaled Lizard cards in his hands. There were a total of twelve cards, which could net him six four-star beast cards. It would be more than just a small sum entering his pocket after selling them.

"Mmm, thinking about it, this mountain range is truly a land of fortune! I wonder if such grouped up three-star exotic beasts are abundant here. If I could bump into a few groups of them, my Fusion skill could rise to level three in one go!"

There were always two sides to a story.

The Dark-Scaled Lizards, which were originally trash, suddenly turned out to be very useful. Not only would they allow Zhang Che to gain experience points in his Fusion skill, they could also be sold for a fortune. It was simply hitting two birds with one stone!

Thus, Zhang Che just stood within this valley, fusing all twelve Dark-Scaled Lizard cards together, and obtained six four-star variants, planning to sell them when he went to Bei Du City in the future.

"No one would ever complain about having too much money!" Zhang Che sighed in satisfaction, and stowed the six beast cards before looking at the area around him carefully.

The valley was deep and filled with twists and turns, craggy rocks were everywhere, while plants were scarce. Both sides of the valley were blocked off by steep cliffs.

Well, that wasn't the main point.

At this moment, Zhang Che's gaze was attracted to a deep cave hidden on one side of the cliff. It could only be seen if he walked close to it.

"Could this be the nest of that group of Dark-Scaled Lizards from before?"

Here was where the problem lay.

If it truly was as Zhang Che guessed, then why would the Dark-Scaled Lizards rather fight to their deaths than escape into this nearby cave?

As long as they went into this barely two-meters-high cave, it would be impossible for the Purple Jade Condor to attack them.

Or perhaps, the group of Dark-Scaled Lizards were guarding something hidden in this cave, or maybe there was an even more terrifying exotic beast in the cave, such that they didn't dare to enter?

However, neither of the two explanations sounded reasonable.

Zhang Che looked into the deep, dark cave, his eyes narrowed slightly…

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Chapter 136: Chapter 136 – A Heavenly Treasure Is Born?

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Zhang Che beckoned the patrolling Purple Jade Condor down from the sky to wait for further instructions by the side.

He looked down and found a fist-sized rock, aiming it at the deep, dark hole under the cliff and threw it with all his strength.

Wuu…

Zhang Che was so frighteningly strong that the rock he threw out actually whistled sharply.

The rock flew into the cave at lightning speed. After about three seconds, Zhang Che heard a dull sound from the cave. It seemed like it finally struck the wall inside.

"Is this for real? This cave is actually over a hundred meters long?!"

Zhang Che was taken aback. He estimated that the rock he threw out probably flew at over fifty meters per second, and it flew for about three seconds before hitting an obstacle. The depth of this cave was truly a little shocking.

The hundred or so meters was definitely not the true depth of this cave. It only meant that the length of this straight tunnel from the front of the cave was about a hundred meters long.

Most caves weren't straight all the way in. God knows how much further the cave went, including all the twists and turns.

Of course, it might also be an extremely rare situation whereby the cave was actually an extremely wide area, like the body of the mountain being hollowed out.

Without going in to take a look for himself, Zhang Che could only make guesses on his part.

"Should I go in to take a look?" Zhang Che was very curious about this cave, feeling the urge to explore it.

He threw such a big rock into the cave and there still wasn't any commotion from inside. There probably wouldn't be any danger in there.

However, to be on the safe side of things, Zhang Che decided to wait a little more, while he gathered some dried leaves and branches, crafting them into a simple torch.

The cave was pitch black; Zhang Che didn't think he could see much in there. It was too dangerous wIthout a tool to light up the area.

By the time Zhang Che was done making his one-meter-long torch, there still wasn't any commotion in the cave. It seemed safe.

Even so, Zhang Che felt that it would be better to act cautiously.He first brought the Purple Jade Condor back into his spiritual sea, then summoned the Fiery Scorpion and Wind Shadow Wolf to scout the way for him, while he held the torch and walked into the cave.

After entering the cave, Zhang Che realized that the situation in here was very different from what he expected.

The cave was very spacious, but it wasn't the kind that was empty.

The further he walked in, the wider the cave became, so much so that it could fit a heavy-duty truck. He discovered the first turn after walking about a hundred meters in.

The rock Zhang Che threw in earlier was currently lying on the ground where the turn was, shown clearly by the torch's flame.

-Should I continue further?- Zhang Che hesitated for two seconds, and decided to continue.

The commotion caused by the rock throwing was loud enough; if there were really any powerful exotic beasts in the cave, it would have come rushing out long ago. It was impossible for them to be smart enough to lie quietly in wait for prey to walk right into their trap.

Since the interior of the cave was so spacious, Zhang Che decided to summon both the Purple Jade Condor and the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon as well. If there was any danger, these two could still exhibit a fraction of their strength, ensuring his safety to a larger degree.

Zhang Che advanced about two hundred meters further into the cave, following the twists and turns, when the cave suddenly widened. It actually turned out to be a huge karst cave!

Countless stalactites were hanging from the top of the cave, with water droplets slowly dripping off of them, forming a huge lake in the inner part of the cave.

Judging from the appearance of the lake, it was probably normal water. There wasn't any of the legendary ten-thousand-year stalactite essence to be found; bad luck!

Zhang Che pursed his lips, ready to turn around and leave this empty cave when the corner of his eyes suddenly noticed a stalk of a peculiar plant growing on the stone wall to the side.

"Hm? Will there really be a fortuitous encounter here after all?" Zhang Che blinked, his heart thumping heavily.

He surmised that the group of Dark-Scaled Lizards were probably guarding this thing.

Thus, Zhang Che jogged over to the stone wall happily, illuminating the peculiar stalk of plant with the torch and looking at it carefully.

The plant was only as big as a palm, its appearance that of a stem tuber plant, entirely creamy-white in color. It resembled a thick bamboo whip, with short and thin hairs growing on it.

Unlike its stem tuber body, these concentrated hairs were faint greenish-purple in color. It was exactly due to these hairs' striking color that Zhang Che noticed it from a few dozen meters away.

"This thing looks really weird. God knows if it's a spiritual herb."

Zhang Che didn't try to touch this strange plant casually. If there was something weird with this thing, wouldn't he fall victim to it?

Zhang Che brought the fire closer, waving it around the plant. The air current caused by the flames made the greenish-purple hair sway slightly, like how humans' hair would sway in a breeze.

Seeing as this thing didn't seem to be dangerous, Zhang Che took out a twig from his makeshift torch, carefully bringing it closer to the plant. Just as the twig made contact with the plant, the peculiar plant suddenly turned into a bunch of ash and fell, like a sand model falling apart.

"This… the hell? What just happened?"

Zhang Che was baffled. Was that thing made of paper? No, even if it was made of paper, it wouldn't fall apart so easily!

There must be a reason behind an oddity. Zhang Che immediately grew wary, hurriedly taking a few steps back. However, he didn't notice any danger looming.

Right at this moment, a faint dark golden glow suddenly shone on the other side of the pond. Together with the source of light in Zhang Che's hand, the entire cave became much brighter.

Zhang Che quickly turned to look, but he only saw that the light source seemed to originate from under the water, with no clue as to what was emitting it.

"Could this be the birth of a heavenly treasure?"

Zhang Che had never heard of such things happening in the beast world. While he was feeling suspicious about this, the dark golden glow suddenly grew and shrank, finally disappearing in the blink of an eye. Following which, a ferocious-looking exotic beast suddenly broke out from the water's surface, jumping out of the water.

Zhang Che immediately came to a realization. This wasn't the birth of a heavenly treasure, but the exotic beast had successfully completed its evolution under the water!

The creamy white stem tuber on the stone wall was only the stem of a spiritual herb. It went without saying that its essence was eaten by the ferocious beast before his eyes, facilitating its advancement.

The body of water, which Zhang Che had originally thought to be an ordinary pond, might not be so normal, after all. It must contain some beneficial minerals in it. Otherwise, why would the exotic beast choose to complete its advancement in there?

Innumerable thoughts flashed across Zhang Che's mind clearly, analyzing everything he had seen since entering this cave.

Sisisi…

The ferocious exotic beast was enraged when it realized its nest was intruded upon just as it completed its advancement. Its figure blurred, pouncing towards Zhang Che!

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Chapter 137: Chapter 137 – Don't Panic, Brother, We'll Help You

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"Look, Brother Meng, the valley ahead looks a little strange."

At the edge of the valley, two beastmasters had walked in without anyone noticing, with an army of subdued beasts of various sizes following behind them, totaling nine subdued beasts.

It went to show that the beastmaster tier of these two were definitely not low.

The man on the left had an exaggerated punk hairstyle, with crafty-looking facial features. However, his observational skills were exceptional, being able to notice the peculiarity in the valley from over a hundred meters away.

On the other hand, Brother Meng on his right was a tall and muscular man. His combat suit was stretched out by his muscles, looking as if it would burst open at any moment.

Unlike the non-mainstream hairstyle his companion had, Brother Meng's hairstyle was obviously very well-taken care of. Although it was only a simple crew cut, the corners and curves were all trimmed very exquisitely.

From this, you could tell that although this Brother Meng was a burly man, he was definitely more of the kind of person that paid attention to details.

"Hm, I see it. Let's go take a look. Be careful."

Brother Meng nodded without any changes to his expression. He stood still for a brief moment, his spirited eyes scanning across the entire valley. He only lengthened his strides once more after confirming that there weren't any anomalies.

Their subdued beasts circled around them, ready to spring into action the moment any danger arose.

"Look, Brother Meng, there's signs of battle here!"

The two approached where the Purple Jade Condor had slaughtered the group of Dark-Scaled Lizards earlier, and they immediately saw the aftermath. It was obvious that an intense battle had occurred here.

Brother Meng smacked his palm on back of the punk's head, chiding him with a low voice, "What are you yapping on for? Don't I have eyes to see for myself?!"

Brother Meng scanned their surroundings, and immediately discovered the deep cave along the cliff. His irises shrank slightly.

At the same time, the punk also noticed the cave. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly remembered how he was smacked on his head earlier and forced his mouth shut.

At this moment, there seemed to be vague sounds of battle coming from within the cave, and the two's eyes lit up.

In the end, the punk still couldn't hold it in as he suppressed his voice and said excitedly, "Brother Meng, there must be someone hunting exotic beasts in there. Should we go take a look?"

Brother Meng glared at him once more, scaring the punk into retracting his neck, hurriedly shutting his mouth.

Brother Meng thought for a moment, his eyes narrowed, before finally coming to a decision. He nodded slowly, saying, "Let's go. We'll go take a look, but we have to be careful about it. We'll come out immediately if anything is wrong!""Heh, I knew that dark golden glow looked a little familiar. So there's an enemy boss completing its advancement here!"

Zhang Che's face only revealed a little surprise as he watched the ferocious exotic beast coming out of the water. He wasn't scared at all.

His Original Combat Body-type beasts were all guarding at his side, and he had the Swamp Crocodile King armor equipped. He was fully confident of retreating safely no matter how terrifyingly strong this exotic beast was.[Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander]

Level: Three-Star (Level 30)

Quality: Dark Gold

Characteristics: Scale Defense is Unparalleled, Possesses Extraordinary Strength

Weakness: Ice Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Earth Element Reinforcement, Borrows the Strength of the Earth to Strengthen Defense

Skill: Earth Displacement, Able to Move Freely In Shallow Earth and Rocks After Activating Skill, Catching Enemies By Surprise. Skill Lasts For 5 Minutes, Cooldown Time: 20 Minutes.

Halo: Earth Elemental Armor

Potential: D RankZhang Che saw the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's attributes the moment it came rushing at him, his eyes opening wide in shock uncontrollably.

This fellow was simply an overpowered, broken bug! {TL: as in programming bug} His babies didn't seem to be able to defeat it; he had to escape quickly!

If they were in the open space outside, although the Purple Jade Condor might not necessarily be able to overpower it, the condor would be standing in an undefeatable position, at least. In this cave, however, his opponent's strength was obviously augmented by the environment they were in.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was very fast. Its darkly glowing figure quickly pounced out, smacking the Fiery Scorpion and Wind Shadow Wolf, who came up to block it, away with its claw, nearly causing them to directly turn into streaks of light and dissipating.

"Its offensive strength is really high!" Zhang Che frowned. He recalled the injured Fiery Scorpion and Wind Shadow Wolf back into his spiritual sea with a wave of his hand, and the Purple Jade Condor and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon immediately went up together.

Alas, it was regrettable that the Purple Jade Condor wasn't able to display its full strength in this situation. Even if it worked together with the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, it felt like they wouldn't be able to match it.

Fortunately, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander seemed to be apprehensive of the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's arctic breath. Otherwise, it would have charged past their blockade long ago and gone straight for Zhang Che.

"Its a pity that the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's quality is a little too low. Even if it was only at gold-quality, it would have been able to keep the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander in check!"

Zhang Che was a little disappointed. Although the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's weakness was ice elemental attacks, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was two quality tiers lower than it; the power the Dragon could exhibit was much less effective against it.

Even so, Zhang Che was able to retreat out of the cave safely.

The true battle would only start if the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander dared to give chase outside.

Zhang Che slowly moved closer to the exit while keeping his guard up for this dark gold-quality exotic beast's Earth Displacement skill ambush, when he suddenly heard some vague, messy footstep sounds from outside.

-Other beastmasters are here!-

Zhang Che hurriedly stopped in place, carefully distancing himself from the tunnel that connected to the outside.

Humans were oftentimes even more dangerous than exotic beasts; how could he not be on guard?

Moreover, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander that was tangling with the Purple Jade Condor and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was obviously an extraordinary beast. Who was to say that they wouldn't have thoughts of committing murder and snatching the treasure away?

The footsteps quickly approached closer, the light of flames entering his sight. Zhang Che saw two men holding torches running towards him, accompanied by the entourage of a group of subdued beasts.

The three matched gazes, without any exchange of words. An awkward feeling arose.

Brother Meng and the punk kept silent for a brief moment, their gazes fell upon the three battling beasts. After that, they exchanged glances and nodded unnoticeably at each other.

"Don't panic, brother, we'll help you!"

After saying that, the two actually commanded their army of subdued beasts and charged into the cavern together.

Zhang Che swept his gaze across the group of subdued beasts. A pleasantly surprised look showed on his face as he expressed his thanks, his voice filled with gratitude, "Aiya, thank you so much, really!" He recalled the Purple Jade Condor and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon with a wave of his hand, and actually ran towards the two beastmasters.

"Go, get rid of him!"

The group of subdued beasts that were originally running towards the battlefield suddenly changed directions at almost the same time, quickly surrounding Zhang Che.

Even so, Zhang Che's face revealed a hint of mockery. A thick, savage-looking purplish-brown club appeared in his hand out of nowhere, instantly turning into a long whip and shot towards the tunnel behind Brother Meng and the punk.

Whoosh!

Brother Meng and the punk felt a gust of wind blowing past them in the next second, and Zhang Che had already disappeared from their sights.

Illuminated by the flames, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander had been enraged long ago. After suddenly losing its targets, it shifted its gaze onto Brother Meng and the punk.

"What the heck! What happened? What was that on that kid's hand? How did he suddenly disappear right under our sights in an instant?"

Brother Meng and the punk looked at each other in dismay…

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Chapter 138: Chapter 138 – Smashed Into Meat Paste

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"A Tier Four beastmaster, and a Tier Five beastmaster. Although the quality of their subdued beasts are a little poor, there's a five-star silver-quality beast and a three-star gold-quality beast among them. They should be able to hold on for some time, right?"

Zhang Che, using the Rotten Ent Prowler whip to quickly leave the area, ran all the way outside before stopping, and summoned his competent subdued beasts and pets again.

He stood a short distance away from the cave entrance, his eyes narrowed, calculating how long the two could hold on with their strength.

The two were definitely not weak by any means.

A five-star silver-quality beast's basic strength and speed was actually slightly higher than that of a three-star dark gold-quality beast's. However, their offensive and defensive strengths were weaker. Adding on the fact that it didn't have a skill, it was basically impossible for it to defeat a three-star gold-quality beast.

Of course, there was still a three-star gold-quality beast in the mix. If they combined strengths, it was possible to fend off the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander for a bit.

"Heh, I wonder what the looks on their faces will be like if they see the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander suddenly disappearing before their eyes."

A strange smile appeared on Zhang Che's face. During the battle earlier, he could tell that the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's "aggro meter" {TL: Gaming reference} was quickly reaching its peak. If it still wasn't able to break past the Purple Jade Condor and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's defensive blockade, it would surely have activated its skill and attacked him directly.

The intuition of a dark gold-quality beast was rather terrifying. They knew how to look for their enemies' weaknesses, and even when they were fighting the subdued beasts of a beastmaster, they could quickly sense that they only needed to get rid of the beastmaster behind them to end the fight.Inside the cave, countless curses were flashing through Brother Meng and the punk's minds.

They had originally intended to backstab Zhang Che while he wasn't paying attention and snatch that powerful exotic beast away.

In a certain sense, their objective was achieved.

There were indeed only their subdued beasts and the exotic beast left in the cave. All they needed was to have their subdued beasts gang up on the lizard-like exotic beast, and they'd have a very high chance of obtaining a beast card.

As for the escaped Zhang Che, he didn't really bother them much.

As long as they could kill the exotic beast and obtain a high-quality beast card, would they not be able to take care of that kid?

Even so, they had not expected this lizard-like exotic beast to be powerful to this extent.

In just a single exchange of moves, the beastmasters lost two of their relatively weaker subdued beasts. They panicked and wanted to make a run for it.

"Let's go, quick! We can't handle this exotic beast!" Brother Meng's face sank as he turned around to run for the cave's exit.

The punk hurriedly followed him, asking worriedly as he ran, "Brother Meng, what should we do if that kid is still outside?"

This was a problem indeed; they would surely be in for a bad time if Zhang Che was waiting outside the cave to ambush them.

Brother Meng cursed out loud, "God damn it, why are you still thinking so much!? You're going to die if you don't run!"

Seeing the two turning tail to run, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's "aggro meter" immediately peaked.

-What do you think this place is, to come and go as you please!? If I don't teach you a lesson, you're really going to think I'm some pushover!-

The enraged Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander immediately activated its Earth Displacement skill. Its huge figure disappeared, sinking into the ground as if it was entering water, leaving the subdued beasts staring wide-eyed, not knowing how to proceed.

Their masters' order was to hold back this exotic beast and buy them time to escape.

However, now that their enemy went missing, what should they do?

Luckily, they wouldn't have to be so troubled very soon.

The punk running at the back suddenly felt something amiss. -Why is it suddenly quiet back there?-

Before a second thought could come to mind, a massive black silhouette suddenly popped out from the solid rock under his feet. Its mouth opened wide and directly swallowed half of his body.

"Ah! Save me, Brother Meng…" the punk shrieked in shock, flailing his hands around as if he was drowning, but none of his actions were useful at all.

Snap!

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's mouth closed with a crisp snap. The punk screamed as his lower body was bit off. Blood gushed out madly from his severed waist, pouring all over the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's head, making it look even more savage and horrifying.

"Brother Meng, save… save m-"

The mournful cries for help suddenly stopped. The remaining half of the punk's body was swallowed by the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander, its mouth closing at his neck. Its sharp teeth effortlessly snapped the punk's cervical vertebra, leaving his uniquely-styled head to roll off.

Following the punk's death, his three remaining subdued beasts let out sorrowful cries one after another at the back of the cave, and turned into streaks of light, dissipating.

Brother Meng was scared soulless. Although he didn't know what exactly had happened, he knew things were turning really bad really fast, hating himself for running so slowly.

He was indeed running very slowly.

The exit was ahead, right before his eyes. The light of hope was right there, but a huge, bloody mouth suddenly appeared on the ground beneath his feet.

Brother Meng's reaction time was shockingly fast. At the crucial moment, his jumping ability burst forth, directly leaping off the ground, almost leading the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander to bite at the air.

Even so, it was only "almost".

No matter how fast Brother Meng's reaction speed was, he was not faster than a three-star dark gold-quality exotic beast.

Realizing its prey had suddenly jumped up, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander followed suit, and bit down hard on Brother Meng's kneecap.

Another crisp snap rang out. Brother Meng's bones were crushed along with the sound, but his legs didn't break off from the wound!

"Ah! My legs!" Even a man of iron will like Brother Meng couldn't help but scream out in pain when his kneecaps were crushed.

Alas, his suffering was far from over.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander grew even more ferocious when it realized that it actually didn't tear its prey's legs apart. It pulled its head back violently, swinging Brother Meng about and slammed him on the uneven ground, a loud thud ringing out.

Brother Meng felt as if half of his bones were broken, his organs shifted positions from the trauma. He let out an extremely miserable howl from the pain.

He really hated himself right now. He wouldn't have worn his gold-quality soft armor if he knew this would happen. It would be better if he just died a quick death; now he was just experiencing living hell!

The violent swings were still unable to tear its prey's legs off. The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander grew very frustrated, and decided to keep swinging its head left and right violently, slamming Brother Meng on the hard ground time and time again, generating a wave of dull thuds.

In the end, when Brother Meng's tight-fitting gold-quality soft armor finally turned into a streak of light and dissipated, his legs finally broke off from a body that was nearly smashed into meat paste. He flew out several meters with a woosh and crashed into the wall, falling off it like a broken cloth sack, no further sounds forthcoming.

At this moment, Brother Meng's subdued beasts finally arrived a short distance away. They turned into streaks of light one after another and slowly dissipated, gone with their master.

At the open space a few dozen meters away from the cave entrance, Zhang Che couldn't help but drop his head, sighing, "These two guys were really disappointing. I was hoping they could cause some huge troubles for the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander, but who would've thought that they couldn't even last two minutes!?"

Brother Meng and the punk's subdued beasts were really not weak. If it was a frontal battle, they wouldn't have lost so quickly.

Without a doubt, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander must have used its Earth Displacement skill and directly killed the two beastmasters, ending the battle in a swift manner.

-Very well; your skill is used now. Let's see if you dare come out and fight!-

Zhang Che stared into the dark cave, quietly anticipating the fight to come.

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Chapter 139: Chapter 139 – Cornered Beast

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As long as the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was unable to use its Earth Displacement skill, Zhang Che had nothing to fear.

If it dared to come out, there was totally a chance of killing it with the Purple Jade Condor and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon working together.

Of course, there was only a possibility of doing so.

After all, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was an exotic beast at the same level and quality as the Purple Jade Condor. If it was bent on escaping, the chances of it succeeding were extremely high.

"I hope that fellow will pursue out here in rage. If I can successfully kill it and obtain its beast card, I really wouldn't have anything to be afraid of at the outskirts of this mountain range in the future."

As Brother Meng's final cries came to a stop, Zhang Che's eyes shone with excitement, staring at the cave's entrance without blinking, anticipating the appearance of the huge, black figure.

Zhang Che wasn't left disappointed in the end.

After killing two humans in a row, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's head was dyed red with blood. Its savagery was fully aroused. Upon seeing Zhang Che, the first one to barge into its territory, actually standing a short distance away from the cave entrance, it suddenly opened its mouth wide and let out a fierce cry. Its six-meter long body, as thick as a bull, quickly shot out of the cave.

"Great, I was afraid you weren't coming!" Zhang Che suppressed his urge to break out in laughter and turned around, running towards the opposite end of the valley in a hurry.

How could the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander just watch as Zhang Che made his escape? Its thick limbs quickly shuffled forward, closing half of the distance between them in just a few breaths' time.

Right as this moment, Zhang Che suddenly stopped in place and turned back around.

A bolt of purple lightning suddenly swooped down from the sky, the sharp talons under its belly reaching out directly for the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's eyes.

Zhang Che jumped up nimbly onto a huge rock about a few meters tall and summoned the Gluttony Monkey with a wave of his hand. He handed the bow and arrows on his back to the frisky monkey and locked his gaze onto the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander below.

"About a minute had passed since its Earth Displacement skill ended. So, I have to finish this battle within the next nineteen minutes, or it will be impossible to catch it once its skill is usable again."

Zhang Che clearly remembered that the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's Earth Displacement skill had a cooldown time of twenty minutes. It was absolutely safe as long as he grabbed onto this opportunity and killed the beast within the skill cooldown period.

At the front of the huge rock, the Purple Jade Condor dove down ferociously from the sky. The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was left with no choice but to temporarily forego pursuing Zhang Che, fending the Purple Jade Condor's attack with a swing of its long, thick tail

A crisp sound rang out following the long tail's swing.

The Purple Jade Condor was obviously a little afraid of this powerful strike. Its diving figure suddenly twisted, narrowly dodging the counterattack.

With that, however, the Purple Jade Condor's attack naturally failed as well.

Zhang Che couldn't resist knitting his brow.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was a three-star dark gold-quality beast, after all. It would prove to be a very difficult task for the Purple Jade Condor to bring it down.

"Frisky monkey, you're responsible for harassing the lizard when Ah Zi attacks later. Don't let that fellow defend and counterattack as it pleases."

"Zhizhi!" the Gluttony Monkey responded in acknowledgement. The bowstring of the Falling Star Model X was half drawn, with a M-type armor-piercing arrow nocked, ready to fire at any moment.

The Purple Jade Condor was extremely fast. After failing its attack, it quickly drew an arc in the air and swooped down at the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander once more.

Its aim this time was on the back of the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's head.

Sensing an ominous wind blowing from behind, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander turned around and took the initiative to bite at the Purple Jade Condor, just as a black arrow suddenly shot through the air, heading straight for its ear.

Although the Falling Star Model X could fire powerful arrows, it was impossible to penetrate the defense of a defensive-type dark gold-quality exotic beast's scales, even if it was paired with the best armor-piercing ammunition, the M-type armor-piercing arrow.

As such, the frisky monkey directly aimed at the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's ear. It was the weakest area on its body; he could cause considerable damage to it if he hit his target.

The truth was, compared to the finger-sized ear hole, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's eyes were the best target.

However, the lizard's eyesight was extremely outstanding, and its reaction time was fast. It was nigh impossible to get a hit on its eyes. Attacking the other vulnerable spots while it was distracted was the only way to deal some damage to it.

Even so, Zhang Che had underestimated the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander. The latter immediately sensed danger the moment the Gluttony Monkey fired the arrow and twisted its body, the arrow hitting the scales next to its ear with a loud crack. Sparks flew about, and only a tiny white mark was left on its scale.

Not only that, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander also dodged the Purple Jade Condor's attack in the same motion it defended itself against the arrow!

"Argh!" Zhang Che smacked his right fist onto his left palm, letting out a disappointed sigh. He was starting to grow anxious.

With the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's nimbleness, it was extremely hard to take it down in a short time even if the Purple Jade Condor and frisky monkey worked together.

"Let's do it the hard way, then!" Left without a choice, Zhang Che could only use his killer move. Under his order, the Purple Jade Condor activated its Wing Blade skill and turned into a bolt of purple lightning, swooping down at the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander.

At the same time, the Gluttony Monkey also received a new order from Zhang Che.

He immediately drew the Falling Star Model X at flying speed, shooting M-type armor-piercing arrows one after another, as if they were free. He didn't take proper aim, either, only firing the arrows at the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's head.

The concentrated rain of arrows struck the scales on the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's head non-stop with loud clanking sounds. Sparks flew everywhere, as if a new blacksmith shop had opened around here.

Facing such heavy harassment from the frisky monkey, it was obviously impossible for the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander to continue dodging the Purple Jade Condor's skill. It displayed its ferociousness at this moment and decided not to dodge anymore, and chose to swing its long and thick tail at the Purple Jade Condor for a direct confrontation.

A dull bang rang out. The Purple Jade Condor's figure swayed for a brief moment and flew over the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander.

On the other hand, a harrowing wound appeared on the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's tail. The black scales that provided unparalleled defense were actually cut open by the Purple Jade Condor's Wing Blade, drawing a half-meter-long wound on it's tail. The skin and flesh were rolled over, fresh blood flowing out of the wound.

"Good, keep it up!"

Zhang Che couldn't help but feel pumped up, staring at the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander.

The Purple Jade Condor was extremely fast under the effects of using its skill. In less than two seconds, its purple figure drew a full arc in the air once more and dove straight at the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander, continuing its assault on its enemy with its other wing.

Zhang Che noticed that the wing that had struck the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander earlier seemed to have a duller glow than the other.

-The Purple Jade Condor was actually injured, too!-

He didn't expect the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's defense to be that tough! Zhang Che's face sank a little, hoping that the Purple Jade Condor could hold on until it slew its foe. Even if it failed to slay its enemy, severely injuring it would be great.

Another dull bang rang out. The Purple Jade Condor's Wing Blade clashed against the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's tail once more, adding another harrowing injury to the tail.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was finally terrified. Using the opening when the Purple Jade Condor flew past it, it quickly turned its body and crawled in the direction of its nest.

"Did you think I'd let a cornered beast escape so easily?" A cold smile flashed on Zhang Che's face as he looked towards the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, who had been waiting by the cave entrance all this while.

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Chapter 140: Chapter 140 – Exploring the Cave Again

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Zhang Che kept the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon away from the battle, all to prepare for this moment.

The Purple Jade Condor's battle strength would be reduced by half if he let the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander return to the cave, and it would be impossible to kill.

Also, judging from how the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was acting so apprehensive of the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's arctic breath, although the arctic breath wouldn't be able to kill it, but it would surely affect its movements to a large degree, making it afraid of letting the arctic breath hit it.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was running madly for its life, and only discovered the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was lying in wait for it when it was about to reach the cave entrance.

"Sii…" The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander let out a long, angry hiss at the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, its eyes revealing hints of fear, and it slowed down at once.

It might have lowered its speed, but the Purple Jade Condor didn't, and caught up to the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander in the blink of an eye. The Purple Jade Condor ran its glowing wing across the back of the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander, adding another wound to it. Fresh blood had now dyed the entire lower half of the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's body red.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander couldn't care about the obstacle ahead that was the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon anymore. Facing the threat of death, it could only steel itself and charge right towards the cave entrance.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, ready and waiting all this while at the cave entrance, sucked in a breath of air and opened its mouth wide, breathing out a large cone of frosty white cold air.

This was not the end, however. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's mouth was like a pair of bellows, pumping out endless clouds of arctic breath, decorating the entrance of the cave with a mass of frosty mist. Tiny ice particles could be vaguely seen amidst the mist, showing how cold it was around the area.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was dumbstruck after seeing this. As a creature vulnerable to ice elemental attacks, its body couldn't help but started trembling before it even got close to the entrance, the movements of its limbs becoming stiffer.

Alas, it didn't have a choice. It had to charge right in if it wanted to live.

Getting a frost injury was much better than being killed, right?

Thus, the pitiful Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander could only brace itself and charged into the dense layer of arctic breath.

"Si…" The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander let out a long hiss from the cold. Its body stiffened uncontrollably, and its speed fell sharply, resulting in it receiving a smack on the face from the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's claw, and it flew a few meters backwards.

"Hanming, you're actually this violent!" Zhang Che, quickly running towards them, felt his gums going numb as he watched the events unfold. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon didn't have a huge body, but unexpectedly possessed such explosive strength! How promising!

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was smacked silly from the hit before. As it regained orientation and was about to find another direction to run in, it suddenly felt one of its legs held in place by something and tried to pull, but wasn't able to free its leg.

At this moment, Zhang Che was tightly gripping the handle of the Rotten Ent Prowler whip with both hands, the muscles on his body tensed with exertion, his face bright red, keeping the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander from breaking free.

Despite his body being altered to a superhuman degree, he was far from contending against a large three-star dark gold-quality exotic beast.

However, it wouldn't be a problem to just delay it for a moment!

Just as the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander was about to exert more strength to break free from the whip's binding, the Purple Jade Condor in the sky was done orienting itself again and dove down like a bolt of purple lightning once more.

This time, the Purple Jade Condor was aiming for the back of the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's neck, intending to end it all with this attack, and kill the beast.

Sensing the rapidly approaching threat, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander immediately panicked. It exerted all its strength on its bound leg, and then… staggered and fell flat on the ground.

Zhang Che held the retracted whip in his hand, showing a sly smirk on his face.

A bolt of purple lightning flew past. The scales on the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's neck were sliced through, huge amounts of fresh blood gushing out like fountain from a wound deep enough to see the bones.

"Frisky monkey!" Zhang Che yelled out. A black arrow suddenly shot out diagonally behind him and drove into the wound on the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's neck, penetrating its brain.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's body suddenly moved back and forth violently, like a fish on the verge of suffocation.

Taking this opportunity, Zhang Che fished out the Mutated Puffersword and strode forward, swinging his sword violently and slashing along the wound on the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's neck, decapitating the three-star dark gold-quality beast.

[You Killed a Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander. Obtained 48 Points of Soul Force. Obtained Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander Card.=

Zhang Che pumped his fist, jumping up in excitement.

He quickly ran forward and picked up the dark golden beast card. Zhang Che's smile grew wider, his eyes narrowing to slits when he saw the attributes. As he expected, it was an Original Combat Body-type card.

With that, he had competent beasts for land, air, and water battles. He wouldn't have any worries from now on!The wavy light of fire appeared in the deep dark cave once more.

Zhang Che held the torch in his hand, his new dark gold-quality subdued beast following beside him, as he began to inspect the depths of the cave.

First he walked towards the wall where he found the peculiar stem and looked carefully, but didn't discover anything. He looked to the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander at his side and asked, "Is that thing the stem of a spiritual herb? Did you eat what was on it and evolve?"

However, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander had already died once and turned into a beast card. How could it possibly still have memories of what happened during its past life? It had a blank look on its face after Zhang Che asked the question, and only shook its large head in the end, indicating that it had no idea what its master was talking about.

"Alright, I knew it would turn out this way," Zhang Che sighed helplessly. The Mutated Puffersword appeared in his hand, and he slashed a few times at the stone wall in front of him, carving out a huge piece of the wall. However, he didn't discover anything special behind it, and could only give up on any thoughts of finding any treasures.

Thinking about it, since the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander had already become his subdued beast, it was still he who obtained the treasure in the end. It didn't seem like there was anything regrettable about it.

After that, Zhang Che walked to the small pond on the other side.

Naturally, he was unable to determine whether the pond had anything special about it. Thus, he beckoned the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon at his side with a wave of his hand and had him enter the pond. This fellow was a true-blue water-type beast. It was sure to realize immediately if there was anything unusual about the pond.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon soon returned to the surface.

Zhang Che quickly sent hopeful gazes to the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon. Alas, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon directly shook his head, and informed Zhang Che via their spiritual link that there was probably some beneficial substance in the pond originally, accumulated through the years, but it was all absorbed by the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander.

"Alright, the benefits still fell into my lap in the end." Zhang Che could only console himself again.

Since there weren't any more treasures in here, Zhang Che naturally didn't want to remain any longer. He raised the torch and turned around, ready to head out of the cave.

Suddenly, his steps lurched to an abrupt stop.

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Chapter 141: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

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Just as Zhang Che was about to leave the cave, he suddenly noticed a tiny hole in a blind spot on the other side of the cave in his peripheral vision.

If he hadn't caught a glimpse of it thanks to the flames as he was turning around, he wouldn't have discovered the hole.

"Could there be something more to this cave?" Zhang Che immediately grew curious.

He immediately raised the torch and strode forward. In the illumination of the flames, what was revealed was indeed a small hole.

-A cave within a cave!-

The hole was about half a meter wide. He shone the light into it, and saw that the hole seemed to be filled with twists and turns, not knowing where it led to.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander, who originally lived here, was surely unable to fit into such a small hole.

Zhang Che's curiosity was thoroughly aroused. He really wanted to check it out.

Of course, to keep himself safe from any hidden dangers, Zhang Che didn't directly crawl into the hole to check things out. Otherwise, it would be too late to retreat if he encountered any exotic beasts.

Furthermore, there wasn't anyone among his subdued beasts and pets who was suitable to scout the hole in his stead.

The only one whose size was suitable was the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon. However, the flood dragon was Zhang Che's darling. Naturally he couldn't bear to let it brave any risks casually. If he were to lose his life in there, it would be too late for regrets!

"That leaves me with no other option than to look for some small-sized exotic beasts…"

Zhang Che suppressed his curiosity and turned to leave the cave. He summoned the Purple Jade Condor and had it look for small-sized exotic beasts nearby, while he waited on standby. Once there was news, he'd immediately ride the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon to where it was.

The Purple Jade Condor's scouting ability was indeed top-notch. Less than a minute later, it informed Zhang Che via their spiritual link that a group of exotic beasts that fit his requirement were moving about to their northwest, in a huge valley located a few mountains behind their location.

"Ah Zi, bring back a beast card for me!"

After thinking about it for a little, Zhang Che couldn't be bothered making the trip himself. Instead, he had the Purple Jade Condor do the job for him, killing the small-sized exotic beasts it discovered and return immediately after obtaining a beast card.

A short while later, the Purple Jade Condor came flying back, holding a two-star black iron-quality beast card in its beak.

"Very good. Although daddy won't be using you as a mount in the future, you're irreplaceable when it comes to battling and scouting for information."

Zhang Che grabbed the beast card from the Purple Jade Condor's beak with a smile, quickly triggering spiritual resonance with it. After branding his spiritual imprint onto the card and waving his hand, a subdued beast that resembled an enlarged mouse appeared by his feet, its length slightly shy of half a meter.

This body was totally capable of taking on the mission of exploring the cave within a cave!

Returning to the cave once more, the subdued beast whose species he couldn't even bother to commit to memory quickly crawled into the tiny hole upon his command.

Zhang Che waited for close to twenty minutes.

When that trash beast whose name wasn't worthy of being remembered finally came crawling back out of the hole and vaguely reported what it saw to Zhang Che, an excited smile immediately showed on his face.

"Mm, it's very spacious behind the tunnel? And there's a lot of shiny things?"

-That is some precious material, isn't it!?- Zhang Che immediately jumped up in anticipation.

He knew that there weren't only herbs and exotic beasts in the beast world. There were also unique minerals, which were extremely precious and important to the humans on Mercury, especially the minerals with shocking properties. The prices of those minerals were no less than low-tier beast cards, and were valued by grams!

It would simply be torture for Zhang Che to crawl through the tiny hole that was only slightly wider than half a meter. He had no prior training for this, and was likely to tire out before crawling too far out.

That didn't matter, however. Zhang Che had a killer technique!

First he summoned the Swamp Crocodile King armor, covering himself. Then, he bent down and crawled into the hole, the Rotten Ent Prowler whip in his hand.

That's right; Zhang Che's plan was to make use of the whip's extending and retracting function, pulling himself along. He didn't have to use any strength at all! It was as easy as it could get.

He didn't have to worry about being injured from the turns in the tunnel, either. With the Swamp Crocodile King armor's defensive strength, he could just ignore the little bumps here and there.

Thus, Zhang Che allowed himself to be pulled in just like that, speeding further into the hole.

He only spent about ten minutes before he reached the other end of the tiny hole. This speed left his unnamed scouting beast on the verge on tears.Zhang Che found the situation had changed. It seemed like the hole he had just gone through couldn't be referred to as a cave anymore. Calling it a tunnel would be more accurate.

The other end of the tunnel was actually another huge cavern. It was several times more spacious than the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's nest.

The reason why Zhang Che could vaguely tell the situation in this cave was because of what the cannon fodder beast informed him earlier. The walls of this cavern were dotted with many glowing green dots.

These glowing green dots were as numerous as the stars in the sky, densely packed across all four sides of the wall, like the galaxy had been hung on a wall. It was an indescribable, magnificent sight to behold, leaving Zhang Che slightly drunk on its beauty.

However, as he came back to himself, Zhang Che couldn't help feeling somewhat disappointed.

These green-glowing things weren't rare minerals at all, but a common type of mineral, fluorite. They were glowing brighter than those found on Mercury, with barely any difference in their basic composition.

These knowledge was passed on from the previous owner of Zhang Che's body.

Although the previous Zhang Che's spiritual strength was average, and he was no top student, he was very interested in minerals found in beast worlds. He would search for relevant information on the Web when he had nothing better to do. However, as his father passed away early and his mother was ill, he had no money to purchase any mineral samples. Otherwise, perhaps he could have made some contributions toward research in this field.

"A pity that the personal terminal can't be used here, or I could have taken a picture of this beautiful scene. Maybe I could even become the next internet celebrity."

Although he didn't discover any rare minerals here as he had hoped, Zhang Che didn't feel much regret. Instead, he stood in the cavern, admiring this beautiful scene that was the natural work of the gods.

Well, one couldn't be too greedy. He had already gotten himself a three-star dark gold-quality subdued beast. What more could he wish for?

Did you really think this was a treasure trove, with whatever you desired in here?, he mocked himself.

After admiring the fantastic natural view found in the beast world, Zhang Che was ready to return. There weren't any more natural tunnels to be found in here; he had to go back the way he came from.

"Hm? Why do I feel like something's not quite right?"

After taking a few steps, Zhang Che stopped doubtfully, his eyes looking carefully on the walls. However, he didn't make any new discoveries.

"I seem to have overlooked something?"

Zhang Che couldn't make out what he overlooked, feeling the urge to slap himself on the back of his head.

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The back of his head mustn't be hit; not even once in his life. He might turn into an idiot otherwise.

But Zhang Che was burning with anxiety inside!

Those weren't his own memories, after all. No matter how perfect the transfer was, it was still something in the "hard drive". He had to key in the correct search term on his own if he wanted to read something in it, and filter the results by himself. How troublesome was that?

"I don't believe that I can't find you!" Zhang Che understood clearly that there was sure to be relevant information pertaining to the situation before him hidden in the memories of his past self. It was just that he couldn't remember it for now.

It didn't matter if he couldn't recall it; he had lots of time to spare, any way.

Therefore, he chose to sit under the "green starscape" and tried to recover from his anxiety, before opening the "memory drive" left behind by his predecessor, searching for what he wanted.

It had to be mentioned that the original Zhang Che's love for research on beast world minerals was truly something. It was very possible that he read up on all publicly available information on the internet, taking up a big corner of his "memory drive".

Even the current Zhang Che, whose spiritual strength was comparable to high-tier beastmasters, had to exhaust an immense amount of effort before he finally found the relevant information regarding the "green starscape" above his head.

"Hoo… I finally found it!" Zhang Che let out a long breath, revealing a bright smile.

His smile was very bright, but under the indistinct illumination of the green light, it looked pretty horrifying, like a smiling malicious spirit.

"In places like this where green fluorite is gathered in large amounts, it is highly likely that purple-gold crystal ores will be present nearby. The purple-gold crystal ore is one of the rare minerals found in beast worlds. A gram of it is worth more than a one-star black iron-quality beast card, priced at over ten thousand Alliance dollars per gram!"

Zhang Che immediately understood why his predecessor would have such a deep impression of this, so much so that his memory, hidden deep within his "memory drive", was triggered the moment he saw a relevant scene.

Ten thousand dollars per gram! What kind of a concept was that!?

There was no need to risk one's own life hunting exotic beasts. If a commoner could find a small piece of it, their livelihood would be set for a few years. If they were more fortunate and found a big piece, then congratulations to them; they wouldn't have to worry about money for the rest of their lives.

Right now, the green starscape before Zhang Che's eyes was very likely to be hiding a huge amount of purple-gold crystal ores.

Despite already having millions in his bank account, Zhang Che's heart started thumping heavily, and his breathing became ragged at the thought of this possibility.

The biggest reason why he became so agitated wasn't because of money.

It was because there had always been a rumor among the commoners, saying that within the circle of the big figures and the high-tier beastmasters, purple-gold crystal ores and other rare minerals had always been treated as a unique currency to exchange for precious materials, high-tier beast cards, and many other things that were out of reach of the commoners.

Zhang Che believed that this definitely wasn't a baseless claim!

Think about it; a three-star gold-quality beast card could sell for millions, if not tens of millions of dollars. What about those beast cards that were of a higher level and quality?

It would be an astronomical amount!

When the money involved reached a certain degree, they were nothing more than a number to the influential people. Trading precious materials and high-tier beast cards for money would be meaningless.

Thus, a practical currency which inherently held a high, stable value was born.

Rare minerals like the purple-gold crystal ores, which had an extremely wide range of uses and yet wasn't too rare, immediately received the common acknowledgement of those in high society, and became barter currency.

From the memories of his predecessor, Zhang Che knew that purple-gold crystal ores were an important additive. By using different composition ratios, the properties of metallic materials could be adjusted differently.

For example, the frames or shell of transportation tools for influential people, like their airplanes or cars, could be mixed with purple-gold crystal ores to a certain ratio, and its toughness could reach an unimaginable level, capable of withstanding direct hits by small to mid-sized missiles.

A weapon mixed with purple-gold crystal ores to a certain ratio would become extremely sharp. Even the scales of defensive mid-tier beasts were unable to withstand the edges of such weapons.

Of course, the prerequisite was that you were able to get close to the exotic beast…

The above mentioned were only two of the many uses of purple-gold crystal ores. It was easy to tell how valuable these rare materials found in the beast world were.

"If there really is a large amount of purple-gold crystal ores here, mom's illness won't be a problem any more!" Zhang Che thought of his mother's condition immediately.

Huang Tielan might not necessarily enroll into the Bei Du University's beast card cultivation major. Similarly, even if Zhang Che enrolled into Bei Du University and worked hard in this area in the future, he might not bear any fruits for two or three years.

In addition, that subdued beast of Professor Sun Qilong, which got a healing-type skill from advancement, would it really be able to cure his mother's illness? That was uncertain…

On the other hand, if he obtained a huge amount of purple-gold crystal ores, all his problems would be solved!

All Zhang Che had to do was issue a reward among the higher ranks of society, stating that whoever cured his mother's illness would be rewarded with a certain amount of purple-gold crystal ore. Which of the owners of healing-type subdued beasts wouldn't be moved?

"Now, let's see if there are really any purple-gold crystal ores hidden among this green starscape!"

Zhang Che suddenly stood up, the Mutated Puffersword in his hand, and slashed at the wall to his side.

A soft clank rang out. The Mutated Puffersword easily cut into the rock wall. He carved out a large piece of rock, together with a few pieces of fluorite, which fell to the ground with a loud crash.

With a wave of his hand, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander quickly came running to Zhang Che and raised its huge claw, slamming it heavily onto the mountain rock that was as big as his head and shattering it.

Using the green light shining above his head, Zhang Che squatted down and spread out the smashed rocks with his hands, searching for any purple-gold crystal ores. Alas, he didn't find anything.

Zhang Che wasn't disheartened, however. How could he find it on his first try? If that really were the case, it wouldn't be so valuable!

Zhang Che stood back up and continued slashing the rock wall with the Mutated Puffersword. This time, he didn't search the carved-out rock after cutting it down. Instead, he carved out several cubic meters worth of rocks and had the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander take on the role of an ore pulverizer, shattering all of them.

The master and beast instantly turned into diligent miners, working endlessly in this huge cavern as loud crunching sounds rang out ceaselessly.

They searched over ten piles of rubble, and yet Zhang Che didn't find even a speck of purple-gold crystal ore.

His expression was as calm as ever, however, and had the mood to pick out the fluorite among the rubble one by one, gathering them into a pile of its own.

Although these ores weren't valuable, they did come in useful in certain situations.

In the beast world, where electronic gadgets were unusable, these fluorite crystals were the best source of light you could have when you needed to explore some underground spaces.

As the fluorite crystals slowly accumulated into a bigger pile by Zhang Che's side, it was like an efficient green lamp was turned on, everything in Zhang Che's sight was much clearer.

"Eh, this is… we found it?"

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Chapter 143: Come On, Huang Tielan, You Can Do It!

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While Zhang Che was fighting hard for his goals in the beast world, Huang Tielan wasn't simply idling back in Qian Wei City, either.

She felt that the past two days were especially fulfilling.

Other than making a trip to the research base everyday and practicing concocting beast card cultivating fluids, Huang Tielan also exercised in the mornings and evenings, doing weight loss workouts in the gym with her mother, Zhong Yuqing.

At this moment, she was sitting at the familiar beast card cultivating workspace, looking at a bronze-quality beast card in her hand and the variety of strange herbs at the side, her eyes filled with determination.

"Come on, Huang Tielan. You can do it!"

After successfully upgrading the Sharp-Clawed Hound card a few days ago, Tienan increased the difficulty for herself and tried upgrading this bronze-quality beast card in her card.

She had failed more than twenty attempts over the past three days. The total cost of ingredients she used was in the range of tens of thousands of dollars, and yet there wasn't even a single success.

Not only that, an explosion even occurred during one of the failures!

Fortunately, Miss Tienan was prepared for that. Using an extraordinary nimbleness for someone who was overweight, she ducked under the sturdy experiment table immediately and avoided being disfigured.

Huang Tielan worked even more cautiously after that, determined to not overlook any minor details to prevent any more mistakes.

"The concentration of scarlet leaf juice needs to remain between 86 to 87%, and has to be mixed in fifteen seconds after adding violet miscanthus sinensis juice…"

Miss Tienan was fully focused on handling the apparatus on the experiment table, extracting the essences of the various herbs. She followed the procedure strictly, adding the ingredients one after another as she mumbled the instructions to remind herself.

In the end, when all of the ingredients were mixed in with no errors, Miss Tienan covered the petri dish and placed it in a transparent heating stove. After setting the right temperature, she turned on the power.

"I can't afford another explosion… the equipment here is all so expensive; if I destroy a few more of them, daddy will start nagging at me again…"

Miss Tienan had an engrossed look on her face, staring at the mixture in the petri dish. Her right hand was on the temperature controller of the heating equipment, ready to adjust it the moment the mixture changed color.

The knowledge involved in this process was extremely complicated, and had to be learned by heart to ensure nothing went wrong during practical operation.

It could be said that every successful beast card cultivator was the cream of the crop!

The temperature of the mixture in the petri dish gradually rose.

When the mixture approached its boiling point, Huang Tielan quickly reacted and immediately turned off the stove, waiting in anticipation.

In the end, the slightly murky fluid in the petri dish cleared up, turning a faint pink.

"Yay, I've half succeeded!" Huang Tielan cheered, pumping her fist. When the cultivating fluid cooled down to room temperature, she immediately lifted the cover and placed the bronze-quality beast card inside, before covering it up again and extracting all the air with a vacuum seal.

Half an hour later, Huang Tielan took out the beast card, now decorated with another hexagram, her eyes filled with hope.

"I can definitely enroll into Bei Du University's beast card cultivation major! For Zhang Xiaoche! And for Auntie Sun's illness!""What is this?"

Using the green light emitted from the pile of fluorite behind him, Zhang Che finally found a piece of thumb-sized black crystal among the pile of rubble.

Under the illumination of the green light, this rough black crystal was like a tiny black hole, absorbing all of the light.

However, Zhang Che didn't recognize this crystal.

He held this piece of black crystal in his hand. It felt much lighter than ordinary steel, but was obviously heavier than rock. It was sure to be a rare metallic mineral.

It seemed like Zhang Che had to familiarize himself with the memories of his predecessor whenever he had time in the future. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to recognize other rare minerals he chanced upon.

Zhang Che resolved inwardly to start searching his memories. He wanted to know exactly what mineral this black crystal was. However, he couldn't find anything…

Despite searching through the entire "memory drive" his predecessor left behind, he found nothing related to this black crystal.

"Perhaps I discovered a new rare mineral?" Zhang Che grew strangely excited the moment this thought popped into his mind. It would be incredible if that were truly the case!

However, there was also another possibility: that this black crystal Zhang Che found was actually a worthless material! As it was too commonly found, Zhang Che's predecessor didn't actually commit this detail to memory.

"I'll leave this for later; I'd better continue looking for purple-gold crystal mineral."

Shaking his head, Zhang Che put this thumb-sized black crystal next to the pile of fluorite and continued sifting through the piles of rubble.

Less than a minute later, Zhang Che dug through a pile of rubble and found another piece of black crystal, about the size of a walnut.

"Strange… why is it this type of black crystal again?"

Zhang Che felt more doubtful now. He picked up this walnut-sized black crystal and looked at it from every possible angle, but he still didn't make any new discoveries.

Could it be that the information his predecessor had seen was wrong? The purple-gold crystals were not found next to large amounts of fluorite?

That was unlikely. Such things were usually concluded only after making many similar observations. How could there be a mistake?

Left without a choice, Zhang Che could only continue digging through the piles of rubble.

When the third piece of black crystal, which happened to be the biggest one thus far, appeared before Zhang Che, he finally stopped what he was doing and looked at it blankly.

Compared to the other two pieces of black crystal, this one had more of a structured shape. It was as big as a baseball, like a piece of gemstone with some simple sculpting work done to it. It was deep black, looking as if it would devour all the surrounding light.

No matter how Zhang Che looked at it, he felt that the shape of this black crystal was extremely similar to what he remembered as the purple-gold crystal ore.

But the color didn't match at all! Could it be that this type of black crystal was truly an undiscovered rare mineral?

It was apparent that there wasn't any purple-gold crystal mineral to be found here, adding to the fact that Zhang Che had no idea what this black crystal mineral was. As such, he decided to stop and get out of the cave, find a large-sized exotic beast, and hunt it.

About half a day had passed. He was starving. Why not get something to eat outside first and continue exploring the cavern later?

As Zhang Che found the baseball-sized black crystal really pretty, he didn't leave it on the ground. Instead, he took it with him and fiddled with it in his hand.

When Zhang Che exited the cave and paused to get used to the blinding light outside, his gaze swept past the multi-faceted crystal in his hand unintentionally. He froze in place, his jaw dropping in surprise…

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"Hahahaha, I understand now! So it's like that!" Zhang Che couldn't help bursting into laughter outside the cave.

The baseball-sized, multi-faceted crystal laying in his palm at this moment wasn't black at all!

It had a rich purple-gold luster emanating from within, its appearance resembling a luxurious gemstone. According to his memories, wasn't the description of purple-gold crystal ore exactly like this!?

In the cavern filled with fluorite, the reason why the purple-gold crystal mineral looked black was exactly because of the fluorite!

It was most likely due to to the pure green light emitted by the fluorite. Shining on the purple-gold crystal mineral, its natural color couldn't show and it could only appear as black.

Zhang Che wasn't well-versed in the study of optics, but this was the fact obvious to him. Naturally he could deduce the underlying reason by working backwards.

"I've truly struck it rich this time!"

Weighing the purple-gold crystal ore in his hand, it felt like it was about a catty and a half, which was around seven to eight hundred grams. According to the price of ten thousand dollars per gram, that was equivalent to about eight million dollars!

That was similar to the price of an ordinary three-star gold-quality beast card!

In that huge cavern filled with fluorite, heaven knows how much more purple-gold crystal was in there? Zhang Che's breathing immediately sped up!

It was very obvious that this was a sum huge enough to move anyone. Then, there was a problem…

"Even if there was truly a shocking amount of purple-gold crystal mineral hidden in that cave, how do I bring it out? And even if I managed to do that, it would be another problem to take it out. Otherwise, there'd be endless trouble awaiting me if someone set their eyes on me."

It seemed like having a fortune was also a problem…

Even so, such troubles were welcome! The bigger the trouble, the better!

Zhang Che stopped thinking about these matters for now. In any case, this huge fortune now belonged to him. That was all that mattered!

He started planning, wanting to turn this cavern into his base of operations in this mountain range. The tunnel that connected the cavern to the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander's nest had to be covered up. No one else must ever discover it!

Even the cave entrance outside had to be concealed naturally. Despite the low number of beastmasters travelling this area, not to mention those that actually came to this valley, the problem was that Zhang Che had discovered this place. Not only that, the two unlucky guys that were eaten by the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander had also discovered this cave!

In the future, there were sure to be even more beastmasters passing by here.

How could Zhang Che possibly not worry if he didn't conceal the cave entrance?

However, this was not the most pressing issue now. Zhang Che's stomach was rumbling; he might not have the energy to cover up the cave entrance if he didn't go find some food right now.As a precaution, Zhang Che summoned the trash beast whose name he couldn't bother to remember and had it guard the tunnel connecting the two caverns. If anyone were to discover the tunnel and tried to explore it, the beast would immediately warn Zhang Che through their spiritual link.

Now that he had the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander, and Purple Jade Condor, capable beasts that covered air, land, and water combat, Zhang Che truly didn't have to be afraid of any beastmaster that might appear in this area.

The truly strong ones would have explored deeper into the mountain range to hunt the more powerful exotic beasts. Who would have the time or interest to kill the exotic beasts here, who were merely trash in their eyes?

Leaving the nameless beast behind (Nameless Beast: Actually I do have a freaking name, but my owner daddy despises me and can't be bothered to remember it), Zhang Che jumped onto the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's back and they flew up towards the peak of the mountain that held the cave.

He could only gain a wider perspective if he were higher up. Not only did Zhang Che have to find a large exotic beast, he had to look for a water source, or he wouldn't be able to proceed with his meat roasting plan.

Of course, the one that truly had to look for food was the Purple Jade Condor. Zhang Che was merely enjoying the sensation of stable flight.

A few minutes later, not only did the Purple Jade Condor find a group of large herbivores, it also found a clear stream nearby. After receiving news of this, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon quickly flew towards their destination, directed by Zhang Che with a wave of his right hand.

Zhang Che felt so hungry that he was sure he'd eat an entire bull by himself…After eating his fill, the sky started to darken. A day had passed just like that. Zhang Che's plan for constructing his base could only be put off until tomorrow.Returning to the cavern, Zhang Che grew excited again, and immediately turned into a diligent miner, splitting the workload with the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander. They kept carving out huge rocks from the wall, searching for every piece of purple-gold crystal mineral they could find, no matter how big or small.

It was only when Zhang Che felt fatigue all over that he finally stopped. Looking around him, a side of the wall was now a huge, black empty area. Anywhere that had fluorite was carved out by him.

After about three hours of work, Zhang Che's gains were huge.

Behind him was a small pile of close to a hundred purple-gold crystals, illuminated by the large pile of fluorite next to them. Zhang Che estimated that there was about seventy catties worth of purple-gold crystal mineral gathered here, or about thirty-five thousand grams.

"Tsk tsk, I only worked as a miner for about two to three hours, and earned a few hundred million dollars before I knew it. I'm probably the best miner in the world, aren't I?" Zhang Che lamented in satisfaction, before ordering the frisky monkey to set up his tent. With the uncountable riches of the cavern by his side, Zhang Che gradually slipped into the land of dreams.When Zhang Che woke up the next morning, he didn't continue digging for purple-gold crystal mineral. Instead, he directly exited the cave and started planning the design for this prosperous base.

The huge entrance definitely had to go. As long as you weren't blind, any beastmaster who passed by would discover the cave immediately. It was very likely that they would then be driven by curiosity and explore it.

Zhang Che looked around the cliff, and discovered an area overgrown with vines a short distance away from the cave entrance, concealing the cliff behind it perfectly.

-The new entrance will be here!-

There was about thirty meters between the old and new entrances. It wasn't something easy to dig out such a long tunnel. Even if Zhang Che had inhuman strength, the extremely sharp Mutated Puffersword, and the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander to clear away the carved-out rocks, he had to spend several hours to dig out the tunnel.

The original entrance was sealed up by Zhang Che with a few huge rocks. Not only that, he also applied a layer of mud on the outside, and moved a few wild plants there, covering it completely.

Simply concealing the entrance might not necessarily assure its safety…

Zhang Che returned to the first cavern and looked around. He gaze fell onto the small pond for a brief moment, and an idea popped into his head.

What was safer than setting the entrance underwater?

{Ed. Note: Umm! There's a little thing called airflow you'll be cutting off…}

However, carving a tunnel underwater was much harder than doing so outside. Zhang Che had to make sure that the connecting tunnel was higher than the water's surface, and only the entrance would dip in altitude, preventing the water from flowing into the tunnel.

Zhang Che was getting hungry after busying himself for half a day outside. Thus, he exited the cave and had the frisky monkey hunt a large herbivore to satisfy their stomachs, before starting work in the cavern again.

It was all thanks to the pile of fluorite Zhang Che had collected that he could work in the dark cavern. Not only did it provide sufficient illumination, it wouldn't produce any smoke, nor exhaust any of the precious oxygen in the cavern.

It was both natural and non-polluting!

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Chapter 145: Who Can Rival Me In These Mountains?

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This time, Zhang Che worked until the sky was completely dark outside before the new tunnel was connected.

Similar to the old cave entrance, Zhang Che did some work to the entrance of the old tunnel, not leaving any traces of it behind.

From now on, the treasure cavern would belong to only Zhang Che himself!With a splash, Zhang Che crawled out of the pond. He took off the Swamp Crocodile King armor, revealing a bright smile.

"Although there's no way to transport all the purple-gold crystals in the cavern out in the short-term, I'll surely have a chance to get my hands on a spatial storage item in the future!"

Zhang Che had made up his mind. In the future, he'd remain here at the outskirts of the mountain range and hunt three-star and four-star exotic beasts. He could return home once he obtained one or two three-star gold-quality beast cards and raised his beastmaster tier to Tier Four.

Although the university enrollment test would take place in the latter half of June, Zhang Che had to get back a few days in advance. Otherwise, if there were any changes, Teacher Han wouldn't be able to find him, and he might miss this opportunity.

Zhang Che had a large amount of purple-gold crystal ore on his hands now, and could cure his mother's illness by setting up a reward, thus whether he enrolled into university wasn't an issue. However, he felt that this method should only be used as a last resort.

After all, Zhang Che firmly believed in one principle: if you didn't have the ability to protect what you had, you should try your best to not expose it, or you'd be fraught with trouble.

Back on Earth, he had read countless cases of businessmen having everything taken away from them. Although there might be some fake news in there, there was still a lesson to be learned from them!

This was a world where strength reigned supreme. The so-called law and justice were nothing but empty words to those who were high up in the hierarchy. If they discovered any great benefits they could take, did anyone really think they would play nice and abide by the so-called law?

Perhaps only kids would believe in that!

Therefore, the matter about him having purple-gold crystals must not be casually exposed, unless he had no other choices left. It might not be safe even after using the Myriad Transformation Lizard card to change his identity!Coming out of the cave, the sky had turned completely dark long ago.

Fortunately, Zhang Che had made preparations earlier and prepared a gutted exotic beast. He only needed to start a bonfire outside the cave and he could start roasting it.

Considering that both the frisky monkey and the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon had huge appetites, and that his food supply was only a single exotic beast, Zhang Che had very selfishly kept his pets contained in his spiritual sea. He worked by himself for some time, roasting the bull-like exotic beast over the fire until it was cooked and started feasting on it, taking huge mouthfuls at a time.

Regrettably, there were not much salt left in his bag of spices after his unrestrained roasting over the past few days. The meat was considerably less tasty.

"It looks like I can't let those two gluttons have any roasted meat for the next few days, either. This little bit of salt isn't going to last."

As such, Zhang Che began fantasizing about how long it would be before he finally obtained a spatial storage item beast card.

Even so, this was still something left up to chance. One could only imagine the rarity of a spatial storage beast card. It was comparable to that of a healing-type beast card. It might be even rarer than that!

"I can only take this one step at a time. At the most, I'll order a super large-sized backpack. I have superhuman strength now, anyway; it's not like I can't carry it."It was another night of good sleep.

Considering that he had no way of bringing the purple-gold crystal mineral out to the real world, Zhang Che didn't continue mining. The entire cavern was his, anyway. There would be plenty of time for that in the future.

The next morning, Zhang Che slept in until he woke up naturally. After he woke up, he had the frisky monkey carry the Falling Star Model X and follow behind him, as he equipped the Swamp Crocodile King armor and used the Rotten Ent Prowler whip to pull him through the tunnel.

"I'd better widen the tunnel when I have time in the future. It's not really a solution to slide my way out everytime…"

Today was the tenth of June.

Walking out of the cave, Zhang Che embraced the sunlight, his lips curled up into a smile.

He had everything planned out. He'd kill as many three-star or higher exotic beasts as required and return to Mercury as soon as possible, in case there were any changes to the enrollment test.

With that, the exotic beasts in the nearby mountains were in for a thoroughly bad time.

Although Zhang Che didn't have any gold-quality beasts among his Original Combat Body fighters, the Purple Jade Condor and the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander were both three-star dark gold-quality beasts.

The two of them were in control of both the land and air, akin to overlords of the outskirts of the mountain range. If they worked together, they had nothing to fear even if they encountered an exotic beast of the same level and quality, and could even slay it.

Moreover, Zhang Che still had an extremely capable pet: the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon!

With such a powerful team, they were simply unbeatable in the outskirts, destroying every exotic beast in their paths.

Currently, Zhang Che needed to kill several hundred more three-star exotic beasts to advance to Tier Four. It might sound like a lot, but it wouldn't take more than a few days if he put his mind to it. The only thing he had to worry about was the lack of three-star exotic beasts for him to kill.

In the outskirts of this mountain range, the one thing that was the most abundant was three-star and four-star exotic beasts.

Zhang Che could employ the Scarlet Flame Drake once he advanced to Tier Four. Just thinking about it stirred him up.

Without a doubt, the Scarlet Flame Drake, whose specialty was wielding flames, was a top-tier existence among beasts of the same level and quality in terms of offensive power. Moreover, the Scarlet Flame Drake was also a beast that excelled in close combat.

"If I wasn't in a rush to return for the enrollment test, I could really try venturing deeper into the mountain range when I advanced. Perhaps I might even come across some huge gains if I did…"On this day, Zhang Che led his subdued beasts and pets, sweeping the three-star or higher exotic beasts in the surrounding dozen kilometers. The results of his conquest were illustrious, slaying close to two hundred exotic beasts, and obtaining around fifty beast cards.

Of those, there were four silver-quality cards, while the rest were black iron and bronze quality. It was a pity that there were no gold-quality cards.

The next day, Zhang Che renewed his efforts and expanded his hunting area. He swept over the surrounding fifteen kilometers, obtaining another few dozen beast cards, and finally got a three-star gold-quality beast card.[Gale Wolf King]

Level: Three Star (Level 26)

Quality: Gold

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: Nimble, Swift As A Gale, Excels In Out-fighting

Weakness: Lacking In Defense

Innate Attribute: Wind Elemental Blessing, Its Speed and Agility Far Exceeds Beasts of the Same Level

Skill: Wind Blade, Able to Spit Out Nine Blades of Wind Consecutively After Activating Skill, Launching Powerful Slashes Driven By Extreme Speed. Cooldown Time: 30 Minutes.

Potential: C Rank

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Chapter 146: The Big Four, Part One

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Actually, the Gale Wolf King wasn't the only three-star gold-quality beast Zhang Che encountered in the past two days, but his good luck seemed to have come to an end a few days ago.

Over the past two days, he slew over half a dozen three-star gold-quality exotic beasts, but only obtained a single beast card out of them, leaving Zhang Che on the verge of tears.

He could swear to the gods that these were the unluckiest two days of his life.

He slowly came to discover a pattern: the higher the level and quality of an exotic beast, the higher the chances of it dropping a beast card.

All the dark gold-quality exotic beasts he slew had dropped beast cards. This made him hazard a bold guess: were all beasts sure to drop beast cards once their quality reached dark gold?

Even so, the number of dark gold-quality beasts he killed were still too little. He wasn't able to confirm whether his hypothesis was true.

"My luck these two days is really something… it was as dark as it could get! According to the past statistics, half of the eight three-star gold-quality beasts should have dropped beast cards for me, but now there's only one card for all my efforts…"

However, Zhang Che was only complaining for a little, now that he was countless times richer than before. He didn't really put this to mind.

Looking at his combat potential, he already had two dark gold-quality subdued beasts, and was about to be able to gain his third. A gold-quality card really didn't matter all that much to him.

However, he had to take the entrance test when he got back, and would be concealing his strength at Tier Three. He still needed a gold-quality subdued beast to put up a front. As such, the Gale Wolf King really came at the right time.

After obtaining this beast card, Zhang Che immediately tried it out, and discovered that the Gale Wolf King truly excelled in speed. Its agility simply overshadowed all his other beasts.

With this fellow, the entrance test shouldn't be a problem any more!Over the next two days, Zhang Che continued sweeping the area. However, he was still wary of running into danger if he explored deeper into the mountain range, so he only explored in the two directions along the outskirts of the mountain range, with his base as the center.

Zhang Che's bad luck persisted, perhaps even got worst. In the next two days, he only encountered a small handful of gold-quality exotic beasts, with none of them dropping any beast card.

However, he discovered another three-star dark gold-quality exotic beast. Alas, that fellow excelled in burrowing underground, disappearing without a trace right before Zhang Che's eyes as his three generals launched a combined attack on it.

Although the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander had the Earth Displacement skill, the skill only granted it the ability to move freely within the earth and rocks, but not the ability to attack from within. This left Zhang Che incomparably depressed.

Even though he didn't obtain another gold-quality or higher beast card, Zhang Che gained a huge amount of low-quality beast cards. It was enough to leave a smile on his face.

"Tsk tsk, I think I can open a mid-sized beast card shop when I return!"

In four days' time, Zhang Che actually obtained over two hundred beast cards of various qualities. The poorest grade among them were two-star bronze-quality cards, while the best ones were four-star silver-quality.

At present, Zhang Che couldn't be bothered with anything poorer than two-star bronze-quality. He didn't care to hunt those exotic beasts; he'd rather look for a higher levelled exotic beast if he had the time. Advancing to Tier Four was what mattered the most!On the afternoon of the fourth day, Zhang Che felt hungry after fighting a few huge battles. As he was about to get the frisky monkey to hunt a large herbivore beast for him as dinner, he suddenly froze for a moment, before showing a pleasantly surprised look on his face.

It had been exactly thirty days since he obtained the rainbow crystal, and it had just proven that his conjecture was right. It took seven days to advance a black iron-quality card to bronze-quality, and fifteen days to rise from bronze to silver-quality. Now that thirty days had passed, the silver-quality Fiery Scorpion was finally welcoming a qualitative advancement.

Raising the Fiery Scorpion's quality meant a lot to Zhang Che.

It was not only his first capable subdued beast, it was also a gift from Miss Tienan. It held extraordinary value to him.

However, as Zhang Che quickly grew stronger, and especially since his other combat subdued beasts were all around gold-quality, with some even at dark gold-quality, the Fiery Scorpion's position became a little awkward.

Its strength was truly a little too low to continue using it. If he retired it, he kept feeling as if something was missing.

It simply left him feeling conflicted.

Now, with the gay scorpion (Fiery Scorpion: Wha-what? What did you call me? You shameless prick, who taught me that disgraceful technique in the first place?) … Um, the Fiery Scorpion finally advancing to gold-quality, and its level rose to two-star just recently, although its strength was still at the bottom rung compared to Zhang Che's other fighting beasts, at least it was something he could bring out to use.

Since Zhang Che had to conceal his true strength for a very long period of time in the future, this little gay scorpion could act as a decent fighting force.

The Fiery Scorpion's evolution would take close to half an hour. As such, Zhang Che ignored it for now. Instead, he quickly found a large exotic beast and the frisky monkey slew it, then carried it to the stream nearby. He watched as the frisky monkey cleaned it up with well-practiced moves.

Zhang Che was getting lazier and lazier. He would never do anything personally if it was something the frisky monkey could do in his stead. It felt as if he was turning into an immoral capitalist.

(Frisky monkey: Are you not a freaking immoral capitalist? You have only been making me work for the past few days, and not fed me any meat at all. Are there any other masters as miserly as you? )

Of course, the truth was that the frisky monkey was used to eating roasted meat marinated with spices and salt. Zhang Che's spices had ran out, and salt was running low. He did roast an exotic beast for the Gluttony Monkey without applying any condiments, but was rejected by this little picky eater after taking a few bites in the end.

By the time the frisky monkey was done cleaning the corpse of the large exotic beast, Zhang Che finished starting a bonfire, and the phenomenon in his spiritual sea also came to a stop.

The Fiery Scorpion had broken out of its shell and reached gold-quality![Fiery Scorpion]

Level: Two Star (Level 12)

Quality: Gold

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: Poison Attribute Attacks, Outstanding Carapace Defense

Weakness: Fears Ice Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Enhanced Fire Attribute Toxin, Able to Destroy Enemy's Physical Body Faster

Skill: Penetrative Strike: Stinger's Penetrating Ability is Doubled Upon Activation, Allowing It To Penetrate Its Enemies' Tough Scales, Instantly Pouring Large Amounts of Fire-Attributed Toxin Into Their Body. Cooldown Time: 25 Minutes.

Potential: D Rank

Cultivating Directions: …With a thought, a streak of golden light shot out from between Zhang Che's brow, turning into the Fiery Scorpion, whose size and color was different from before.

This fellow's body length had grown to around two meters long, especially its tail, which made up over half of its body length. Its carapace was now a darker shade of red, with a faint purple hue. One look and you'd know it wasn't to be trifled with.

After advancing to gold-quality, the Fiery Scorpion's strength increased in all aspects. More importantly, it had a skill now. Although it didn't seem very useful, it was really decent for a low-tier beast.

Zhang Che sighed with a faint smile, "I didn't expect your skill to actually be increased penetrating strength. You're really going down the gay path, aren't you?"

Fiery Scorpion: !@#$…

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Chapter 147: A Carpet That Snatches Food

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Although Zhang Che didn't gain much in terms of beast cards for four consecutive days, the Fiery Scorpion's successful advance still brightened his mood considerably.

Zhang Che, being in a great mood, actually shared half of his roasted exotic beast meat marinated with salt generously with the frisky monkey.

You could only imagine how touched the frisky monkey was!

This fellow was so scared that his master daddy would take back the roasted meat, he held onto it tightly with both hands, chomping down on it. Its mouth, which wasn't so big to begin with, was widened to the limits, shocking anyone who saw it. His mouth opened so wide that half of his ugly face was hidden from sight.

"What a poor fellow… I have to bring more spices and salt the next time I enter the beast world. Just look at you…" Zhang Che shook his head, laughing at the frisky monkey's shocking appearance.

Turning his head around, Zhang Che saw the resentful look on the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's face. Zhang Che's face stiffened, and he tossed the roasted meat that he had already brought to his mouth to his other pet.

"Forget it. I'm in a good mood today. At the most I won't eat any salt for the next few days."

The excited Cold Abyss Flood Dragon instantly twisted his body, shuffling forward to pick up the roasted meat and munching on it.

Watching his pets eating happily, although Zhang Che's stomach was rumbling in protest, his face showed a joyful smile. He looked at the frisky monkey and yelled at him, "Start working once you're done! I haven't even got to eat anything myself!"

"Uo… zhi.. wu…" The frisky monkey's mouth was filled with meat. He cried out ambiguously, acknowledging Zhang Che's words.

Zhang Che rolled his eyes helplessly. Afterwards, he remembered something to be excited about. It seemed like the frisky monkey was also almost due for advancement!

He quickly calculated with the help of his fingers, before revealing a faint smile. It had been fourteen days since the frisky monkey became his pet!

According to the requirement of fifteen days for advancement from bronze to silver-quality, this fellow would rise to silver-quality tomorrow, if nothing went wrong!

Zhang Che was looking forward to this.

At present, the frisky monkey could draw the Falling Star Model X easily. He was sure to gain a boost in strength after his quality rose to silver. Didn't that mean that he could draw a stronger bow then? It went without saying!

Regrettably, the Falling Star Model X seemed to be the best bow found in Ci Zhou City's Shooting Sun Research Institute. It was impossible for them to continue developing recurve bows that had a higher draw weight, because no one could use it! How could they possibly sell the product?

As for compound bows, they were expensive, and had slow firing rates. Zhang Che would never consider them.

"Then, if I have some spare time after I get back, should I go to the Shooting Sun Research Institute to order a custom-made one?"

This idea was indeed very tempting. Zhang Che was already fantasizing about it. How destructive would it be if the frisky monkey was equipped with a powerful bow with a draw weight of a thousand kilograms?

Even a three-star dark gold-quality beast would be suffer damage from it, right? And this was only at silver-quality. With the frisky monkey's B-Rank potential, his limit was advancing to dark gold-quality. If he had a powerful bow that matched his strength at that time, would the arrows he fired break the sound barrier?

The possibility definitely existed!Another day flew by. It was already the fourteenth of June in the blink of an eye.

As he was anticipating the frisky monkey's advancement, Zhang Che didn't let him out of his spiritual sea to prevent any accidents. Instead, he ordered the frisky monkey to stay quietly in there and wait for the moment to arrive.

As for his breakfast, there was nothing to worry about. Wasn't there the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon?

That fellow only needed to breathe out a mouthful of arctic breath to hunt the low level and quality herbivore beasts, turning them into sculptures of ice. It was even more effective than the frisky monkey's arrows.

Seeing this, Zhang Che's imagination immediately ran wild.

This was simply an all-natural, electricity-free refrigerator. He only had to command the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon to let out a breath of air to keep whatever he wanted at low temperatures.

Today, Zhang Che continued expanding his activity area along one side of the outskirts of the mountain range.

He swept his way through several kilometers, and slew close to a hundred exotic beasts. He gained about two dozen beast cards from this.

To his surprise, he discovered that his luck had finally changed for the better!

In just half a day's work, he obtained a gold-quality beast card.

The only regrettable part was that the level of this beast card was a little too low. It was only a one-star card, not to mention it's potential being at the most worthless E-Rank. There wasn't any value in nurturing it.

Zhang Che was still very happy about this, regardless.

Even if he couldn't use it, he could gift it to Miss Tienan!

At this moment, Zhang Che decided that he would be responsible for providing Miss Tienan with all the beast cards she'd be using. Whatever quality she wanted, she'd have them. Same went for the type and species. Now that he had a strong army of subdued beasts and pets behind him, Zhang Che truly had the capacity to do that!

After the past few days of large-scale hunting, Zhang Che could sense that he was getting closer and closer to Tier Four. If his estimations were right, by tomorrow he would be witnessing the Scarlet Flame Drake's magni… uhm, right, that fellow's body was burnt black from lightning strikes when he killed it. He had yet to see its original appearance.

-Hmm hmm, I only hope that it's not too ugly. I remember how that fellow's cry was just like a dog's. Its appearance wouldn't be like one, too, would it? – Zhang Che doubted that deeply…Another half a day passed. There still wasn't anything unusual happening in his spiritual sea. There were no signs of the frisky monkey advancing.

Zhang Che wasn't anxious, however, because his attention was attracted by a small to mid-sized herbivore beast at this moment.

This exotic beast was called a White-Bum Deer. Its level and quality couldn't get any worse, but its characteristics left Zhang Che salivating.

"Characteristics: Exquisite Texture, Tastes Delicious. Favored By All Predators."

Zhang Che simply didn't dare to believe his eyes when he first saw the characteristics. -Is it freaking joking with me? It even introduces whether an exotic beast is delicious or not?-

However, after taking a second, and even a third look at it, Zhang Che had to admit that what he saw was true.

As such, he immediately grew excited. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon quickly rode the clouds and gave chase to it as Zhang Che commanded.

Although the White-Bum Deer's strength was nothing worth mentioning, its running ability caught Zhang Che's attention. When it sensed danger, it immediately dashed out like lightning, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon taking a good several seconds to catch up to it.

Seeing his prey right before his eyes, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon raised his head back, taking a deep breath, and then…

There was nothing after that.

When the White-Bum Deer ran to a gap under a cliff and was about to escape into it, a furry carpet suddenly flew out from within and wrapped itself around the White-Bum Deer, snatching the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's prey right under his nose.

"What strange species is this!?"

Zhang Che was annoyed. He actually encountered something that snatched his food from him…

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was even more furious. – What wild species are you, to actually steal something from me, a being from the royal bloodline of a dragon? Are you looking down on me?-

Enraged, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon spat out the arctic breath brewing in his mouth at the "carpet", which hadn't had time to make its escape yet.

However, the carpet actually wasn't affected by the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's breath attack, and directly rolled deep into the gap under the cliff, disappearing from Zhang Che's sight.

All of this happened too suddenly. Zhang Che barely managed to catch a glimpse of the carpet's attributes…

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Chapter 148: The Big Four, Part Two

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Level: Four Star (Level 37)

Quality: Gold

Characteristics: Likes Hiding In Damp Areas, Moves Swiftly, Unparalleled Defense

Weakness: Sole Weakness – Fire Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Blood Sucking. The Suction Pads at Its Belly Quickly Peel Off the Skin and Scales of Its Prey, Sucking Away All of Its Blood in an Extremely Short Amount of Time

Skill: Wind Travel. Able to Glide On The Ground At Extreme Speed After Activation to Capture Prey. Effective Range: 20 Meters. Cooldown Time: 5 Minutes.

Potential: C Rank"Siii… holy cow, these attributes are simply awesome!" Zhang Che stared wide-eyed, watching as the Vampiric Demon Carpet disappeared into the cracks, unable to say a word for a long time.

This was the first time he'd seen an exotic beast with such astonishing attributes!

The Vampiric Demon Carpet's offensive strength alone was extremely shocking: " Able to quickly peel off the skin and scales of its prey ". Even beasts whose level and quality were slightly higher than it would probably be unable to withstand its attack.

Zhang Che guessed that the suction pads on the belly of the Vampiric Demon Carpet contained highly corrosive acid. Otherwise, how could it quickly peel off the scales of a defensive exotic beast?

If the Vampiric Demon Carpet's offense was enough to leave Zhang Che in shock, then its defense was even more appalling. It actually had a sole weakness attribute. It was the first time Zhang Che had seen anything like that.

This so-called sole weakness, without a doubt, meant that the Vampiric Demon Carpet would be unaffected by any types of attack apart from fire elemental ones, unless the difference in power between the two was too large. However, that no longer had anything to do with weakness. That was simply relying on an overwhelming force to overpower it.

The cooldown time of the Vampiric Demon Carpet's skill left Zhang Che speechless.

Although this was simply a supporting skill that helped it catch its prey, its cooldown time was only five minutes! Could this thing get any stronger than that!?

If this beast could advance to higher quality in the future, would its cooldown time disappear entirely, and it be able to use it constantly?

After his initial shock died down, Zhang Che immediately grew agitated.

Without a doubt, the Vampiric Demon Carpet was an extremely good exotic beast to have. No matter what type of beast card it turned into after killing it, it would be extremely useful!

However, Zhang Che estimated that this fellow would be an Original Combat Body-type in the end. After all, its only trait was an offensive one.

"I hope you won't leave this area. I'll come back for you tomorrow!" Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly.

The Vampiric Demon Carpet's level and quality were both not low. In addition, its weakness was only fire elemental attacks. As such, Zhang Che's current pets and subdued beasts could do nothing to it. Even if he could force it out of hiding, he could only watch it.

Other than the Scarlet Flame Drake, which he was unable to employ as of now, there was no other subdued beast or pet that could deal with it.

Fortunately, however, Zhang Che was very, very close to breaking through to Tier Four. If this Vampiric Demon Carpet didn't leave this area in the near future, it would spell its doom when the Scarlet Flame Drake showed itself to the world tomorrow!

"Let's go, Hanming. We'll be back!"

Zhang Che slapped the still-furious Cold Abyss Flood Dragon lightly, before sweeping his gaze around. He committed the terrain around here to memory and left.

He only hoped that the Vampiric Demon Carpet wouldn't leave this area.

The exotic beast's attributes mentioned that it favored damp areas. There happened to be a stream going through this valley, which was exactly where it liked to hide itself. It wouldn't leave this area quickly, would it?

The important task at hand was still to hunt exotic beasts and advance to Tier Four as soon as possible.For the next half day, Zhang Che swept through the exotic beasts in the surrounding area, gaining another bunch of beast cards. He could sense that he was right on the verge of breaking through.

Seeing the sky had darkened, although Zhang Che couldn't wait to advance to Tier Four with a last burst of effort, he could only force himself to wait patiently for tomorrow.

Zhang Che had the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon hunt a large herbivore for their dinner. After the master and pet had a fulfilling dinner, Zhang Che quickly rushed back to his base in the mountain range.

Returning to the hidden entrance, Zhang Che couldn't help wondering, -It's already night time. Why isn't there any response from the frisky monkey yet?-

The day was almost over. Why was there still no reaction in his spiritual sea? -Could it be that my estimation was wrong, and that the frisky monkey's advancement wasn't today?-

With a belly full of doubt, Zhang Che carried a frozen exotic beast into the cavern, waiting for tomorrow to come.

It was still early; naturally he wouldn't be going to bed yet.The expansion of the tunnel connecting both the caverns was not finished yet. There was still a mountain of work waiting for Zhang Che.

The Mutated Puffersword stabbed into the rocks, giving out only light noises. Zhang Che had always been extremely satisfied with its sharpness.

As another huge rock was carved out, Zhang Che suddenly realized the phenomenon in his spiritual sea he had been waiting to occur for the entire day finally came without any signs.

Zhang Che's expression was as calm as could be. His arm paused for a moment, then he continued digging the tunnel. In any case, the frisky monkey needed about half an hour to complete his advancement. There was nothing to be anxious about.

He carved out huge rocks, one after another, with the help of the Mutated Puffersword. The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander right behind him was responsible for carrying the carved-out rocks out. The way this fellow transported the rocks out was rather comical. As it needed its limbs to crawl its way out, the big black (Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander: Enough is enough. You're blatantly discriminating against me for my skin color!) fellow held the huge rocks in its mouth, carrying them away to the spacious caverns.

This fellow was shockingly strong. It could move half a ton of rocks on a single trip, and that was only limited due to the size of its mouth. Otherwise, it could haul even more. It was simply a beast-shaped loader!

Zhang Che expanded several more meters of the tunnel, and the frisky monkey was finally done with his advancement. He immediately dropped what he was doing and summoned the frisky monkey out from his spiritual sea.

"Zhizhi, zhizhi!"

The moment he appeared, the frisky monkey jumped about restlessly before Zhang Che, crying excitedly, showing a joyful smile on his ugly face.

However, under the illumination of the fluorite, the smile on the frisky monkey's ugly face made Zhang Che feel uncomfortable looking at it.

It was truly too ugly. Someone might be scared to death if they saw it.[Gluttony Monkey]

Level: Three Star (Level 26)

Quality: Silver

Characteristics: Lively and Mischievous, Extremely Skilled at Climbing, Excels in Finding All Kinds of Fruits

Weakness: Poison Attribute Attacks

Innate Attribute: Spiritual Reaction, Able to Sense the Spiritual Fluctuations of Spiritual Herbs and Fruits Within a 500 Meter Radius.

Potential: B RankAfter seeing the Gluttony Monkey's attributes, Zhang Che was out-right staring at the frisky monkey. His eyes beamed with light, and his arm was stuck out, his thumb pointing up. "Frisky monkey, you're really amazing now!"

This fellow's innate attribute was simply too good. He was actually able to sense the spiritual fluctuations of any spiritual herb or fruits within a five hundred meter radius!

A blinding golden path had just appeared before Zhang Che's eyes.

Ordinary herb gatherers could only rely on their luck when searching for spiritual herbs in the beast world. They might not find even a single stalk in months or even years!

Now, with such an outstanding innate attribute on the frisky monkey, anywhere he went, no spiritual herbs would be able to hide from him no matter how hidden they were, as long as they were within five hundred meters!

Of course, Zhang Che was aware that although all kinds of spiritual medicines were produced in the beast world, the chances of them growing were still a little too low. Even if the frisky monkey could detect them within five hundred meters, it might not be very helpful. It could only ensure that Zhang Che wouldn't miss any spiritual herb he might come across.

What truly made Zhang Che crazily happy was the frisky monkey's potential. This fellow had B-Rank Potential!

As the frisky monkey slowly advanced in the future, it went without saying that his spiritual reaction's range would continue to expand. When that time came, Zhang Che would wake up with a smile even if he was only dreaming!

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Zhang Che showed a radiant smile on his face, bending his body lower, bringing his face closer to the frisky monkey's, saying, "Here, here, look at daddy's sincere eyes. I'll be counting on you to make a living from today on. Do your best!"

"Zhi…" the frisky monkey rolled his eyes back, and directly fell backwards. After that, he crawled back to his feet and showed his back to Zhang Che, slapping his butt cheeks lightly and turned back around, making a face at his master.

"You freaking…" Zhang Che raised his foot and kicked the frisky monkey. Immediately after, he burst out into laughter.

The sounds of laughter reverberated through the long and dark tunnel, like the howls of malicious spirits…The night passed. It was now fifteenth of June.

At the break of dawn, Zhang Che rode the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, hovering in the air of the valley that contained his base, surrounded by a mass of clouds. An army of subdued beasts and pets followed behind them, giving off an impressive appearance.

"If nothing goes wrong, I should rise to Tier Four today… Let's move out, boys!"

With a wave of his hand, the team of beasts was recalled back into Zhang Che's spiritual sea, with the exception of the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon and Purple Jade Condor. After that, they set off along the outskirts of the mountain range that extended behind his base.

They flew at high speed, passing by countless mountains and streams.

After noticing a large amount of exotic beasts between two mountains ahead of them, Zhang Che ordered his flying beasts to stop. He landed on the ground and summoned the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander, Gale Wolf King, and his other capable subdued beasts, slaughtering their way forward majestically.

What followed after was a stroke of tremendously bad luck for the exotic beasts in this area.

Any exotic beasts that entered Zhang Che and his babies' sights were basically done for, unless they could burrow into the ground and, survive this ordeal.Over the last few days, Zhang Che had occasionally discovered the tracks of other beastmasters. However, Zhang Che chose to detour around them with no exceptions, in order to prevent them from seeing his army of subdued beasts and pets.

No matter if it were his subdued beasts or pets, they all drew a little too much attention. He would try to keep a low profile as best as he could.

Although Zhang Che wasn't afraid of the beastmasters who would appear in these areas, humans were unpredictable. Who could be sure that none of them knew some other powerful beastmasters? Who could be sure that none of them would be attracted by Zhang Che's powerful beasts after seeing them, and go on to gather a group of experts to attack him from all sides, forcing him to hand over his beast cards?

Like his homeroom teacher, Teacher Han, had told him, the human heart was more often than not more dangerous than exotic beasts. No matter how careful you were, it wouldn't be too excessive.

It was exactly because of this caution that Zhang Che hadn't been spotted by any beastmasters for the past few days. At the most, they'd see the Purple Jade Condor flying in the sky, streaking across their line of sight. They only took it as a powerful exotic beast flying past.Time flowed by silently. Zhang Che spent another half a day in this area before he knew it.

During this half a day's time, Zhang Che had great harvests again. Although he didn't obtain any gold-quality or higher beast cards, he obtained more than ten three- or four-star silver-quality beast cards, not to mention a bunch of bronze-quality cards. There were so many of them that he couldn't even be bothered to keep count.

"I'm almost there! Just a little bit more!"

Feeling the soul force in his spiritual sea accumulating to a certain degree, on the verge of a qualitative change, Zhang Che's eyes lit up.

He only needed to hunt another hundred or so three-star bronze-quality exotic beasts at most to become a Tier Four beastmaster.

If he hunted exotic beasts that were of a higher level or quality, the number of beasts required would be less.

"Work hard, young man. If everything went smoothly, we can return tomorrow morning!"In order to advance as soon as possible, Zhang Che split his army of beasts into two groups, one of them led by the Purple Jade Condor, accompanied by the Fiery Scorpion and Gale Wolf King.

The other team was, naturally, led by Zhang Che himself. He was riding on the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, and the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander ran on the ground, the frisky monkey wielded the Falling Star Model X, and the Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly was on standby.

The two teams were about two kilometers apart, advancing in the same direction. Hunting separately raised their efficiency greatly.

"I should have done this long ago!" Zhang Che slapped his forehead lightly, feeling annoyed. With his current strength, there was no need to worry about encountering any danger around the outskirts of the mountain range. He should have done this a few days ago; perhaps he would have advanced to Tier Four some time ago!

However, it wasn't too late for him to discover this now. At the very least, Zhang Che could guarantee that he would advance to Tier Four before the sky turned dark.While Zhang Che was working hard killing exotic beasts, a middle-aged beastmaster was watching him from the top of a mountain several hundred meters away, sizing him up with his eyes narrowed.

This man had long and narrow eyes, with a Van Dyke beard. His appearance looked rough, with traits of a sly and cunning character.

He was wearing a gold-green hard armor, with only his head exposed. His hands were empty, but he was surrounded by five extraordinary subdued beasts.

It meant that this middle-aged man was at least a Tier Five beastmaster, perhaps even Tier Six.

"That is a flood dragon-type subdued beast? Interesting!"

Even though they were several hundred meters apart, the middle-aged man could tell that beast Zhang Che was riding on was actually a flood dragon. This man's eyesight was unusually sharp!

After pondering for a few seconds, the middle-aged man waved his hand, recalling four of his subdued beasts back into his spiritual sea, and jumped onto the back of a green-feathered flying beast at his side, and flew towards the valley Zhang Che was in.

What was even more astonishing was that this middle-aged man's flying beast was actually flying at nearly three hundred kilometers per hour, and yet there weren't any traces of discomfort on the man's face. It went to show how tough his body was, and how much stronger than an ordinary human he was.The distance of several hundred meters were covered in the blink of an eye.

"Hm?" Zhang Che suddenly noticed something as the green flying beast rapidly closed the distance between them. He hurriedly turned his head to look, and his heart immediately sank.

The man who was approaching came with ill intent!

Sitting on the green flying beast's back, the middle-aged man waved his hand. Three silvery flashes and one golden flash suddenly shot out from between his brows, turning into four beasts of various shapes and sizes on the ground, all closing in on Zhang Che.

Among the three silver-quality subdued beasts, one of them was a six-meter-long totally black tiger , a huge mantis with a brown back and emerald green belly, and a rock giant about five meters tall.

As for the gold-quality subdued beast, it was a scarlet-furred fox with a wolf-shaped body.

The four subdued beasts were actually all six-starred!

Not only that, the middle-aged man was wearing a three-star dark gold-quality armor, and was riding on a five-star gold-quality flying beast. Anyone who heard of his strength would be struck with fear!

Without thinking, Zhang Che knew that there was no chance he could possibly be a match for this man, not even if the Purple Jade Condor came rushing back from the other side.

However, since this man was approaching him for no apparent reason, his aim shouldn't be to kill Zhang Che.

Then… the only possibility was that the middle-aged man was interested in the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon under Zhang Che. He wanted to force Zhang Che to hand over this obviously extraordinary "subdued beast" with brute strength!

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Chapter 150: Greed is Usually What Leads to the Death of the Greedy

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Edited by Aelryinth

Facing such a situation, Zhang Che didn't try to run at all. He understood very well that he couldn't escape.

After all, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's flying speed was a little slow. The middle-aged man's mount was a five-star gold-quality beast! It could catch up to the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon in matter of seconds.

Let alone the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, it was likely that even the Purple Jade Condor couldn't shake off their enemy's pursuit. Their strengths were on totally different levels!

After summoning the four subdued beasts and having them surround Zhang Che at a distance, the middle-aged man jumped off from about a dozen meters in the air, landing stably with only a slight bend of his knees. He looked at Zhang Che with a faint smile and asked, "This flood dragon of yours looks pretty good. How about selling it to me?"

As expected, the man came for the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon!

Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly, calculating. -How should I act to successfully escape from this man, without putting myself in too much danger?-

The middle-aged man didn't mind that Zhang Che was looking at him warily without replying. He turned to look at the frisky monkey at Zhang Che's side, revealing an even more interested look in his eye, saying, "Strange. Very strange! This little monkey of yours shouldn't be at a high level or quality, but actually has the intelligence to use a weapon! And it is even a bow, a long-distance weapon that requires skill! Looks like this little monkey isn't quite the normal beast, either. How about selling it to me as well?"

Zhang Che still didn't say a word. Since this man was interested in both the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon and the frisky monkey, it proved that this man wouldn't kill him easily.

Once a beastmaster died, their subdued beasts would turn into streaks of light and disappear along with the beastmaster, due to the spiritual imprint branded on them. This reality received quite the silent criticism from beastmasters who favored robbing others.

Under such unique rules, robbing became quite the task. Wanting to snatch beast cards from others without killing them was simply a challenge to their intelligence!

No one was stupid enough to not know that their deaths were pretty much guaranteed after handing over the beast cards. As such, most people would choose to fight to their deaths. Even if they were to die, they would rather have the robbers pay a certain price.

Not only that, even if the beastmasters were facing someone they could never hope to win against, only a tiny fraction of them would harbor hopes of the other party keeping their word, sparing them after giving up their beast cards, despite knowing that such possibility was close to impossible.

Seeing Zhang Che keeping silent all this while, the middle-aged man wasn't angered in the least. In his opinion, those two subdued beasts with shocking potential were as good as his.

"Don't worry. I'll keep my word. As long as you hand over those two subdued beasts, I'll definitely let you leave. After all, we have no feud against each other. I'm only looking for riches; I'm not that willing to stain my hands with the blood of fellow humans."

The middle-aged man looked at Zhang Che, maintaining his faint smile. A faint cold light flashed across his narrow eyes.

-You can't use them even if I gave them to you!-

Naturally, Zhang Che wouldn't tell the man that those two beasts weren't his subdued beasts, but his pets. Other than himself, there shouldn't be anyone who could tame them. Could there be someone else in this world who had a divine object like the rainbow crystal?

Noticing the indifferent gaze in the middle-aged man's eyes, Zhang Che finally broke his silence. "How can I believe you? What if you killed me right after taking my beasts? Would there be anyone else who would know?"

What Zhang Che needed the most right now was time. The Purple Jade Condor and the other beasts on the other side were slaughtering every beast they could find after receiving Zhang Che's orders, in the hopes of getting Zhang Che to Tier Four as soon as possible!

"Hah, who doesn't know of my, Wu Yunfeng's, reputation in Qian Wei City? I said I won't kill you, and that's that, as long as you hand over those two subdued beasts obediently. Otherwise, heh heh…" the middle-aged man chuckled. His face turned grave immediately after. The words that came after his chuckle didn't have to be said explicitly.

Zhang Che let out a chuckle as well, saying, "Although I have no idea whether your reputation is as you said, I will choose to believe your words…"

Seeing Zhang Che finally giving in, Wu Yunfeng curled his lips up into a slight smile.

Zhang Che paused for a moment, before finishing his sentence with a ridiculing face, "…you won't kill me, but your subdued beasts will surely act immediately. Isn't that right?"

"Looks like you're choosing the penalty instead!" Wu Yunfeng's patience finally ran out. His face turned cold, a cold light flashed in his eyes. With a wave of his hand, his surrounding powerful subdued beasts pounced at Zhang Che simultaneously. He decided to make Zhang Che suffer a little.

On the other hand, Zhang Che waved his right hand and recalled all of his subdued beasts and pets into his spiritual sea as Wu Yunfeng's subdued beasts jumped at him, while his left hand stealthily moved towards a zipper on his backpack.

Wu Yunfeng was taken abac,k seeing Zhang Che giving up on resisting and actually recalling his beasts back into his spiritual sea. He halted his subdued beasts' advance, and smiled with a mocking face. "You're a tough one, aren't you? But did you think I'd kill you so easily? Hahaha! I can assure you that you'll surely hand over those two beast cards obediently!"

In the next moment, a dark golden ray of light landed in Wu Yunfeng's palm and turned into a weirdly-shaped bugle horn-like object.

He looked at Zhang Che mockingly as he brought the weird bugle horn to his mouth, blowing into it.

No sound was produced. However, Zhang Che revealed an astonished look in his eyes, and his expression turned into one of extreme pain. He suddenly cried out loud and fell to the ground, rolling about bitterly, his hands holding onto his head.

Wu Yunfeng blew on that soundless bugle horn for nearly a whole minute, only stopping when Zhang Che's screams slowly turned into weak groans, his body curled up, laying on the ground silently. Wu Yunfeng smiled faintly, slowly walking towards Zhang Che.

After getting close to Zhang Che, Wu Yunfeng asked chuckingly, "How is it? The taste of my Soul-Sucking Bugle Horn?"

At this moment, however, the supposedly incapacitated Zhang Che suddenly sat up. A dark golden ray of light suddenly shot out from between his brow and transformed into a savage beast with hints of scarlet flames dancing around it, covered in iridescent scarlet fur with golden spots, and a pair of sharp, curved horns on its head.

This beast wasn't very large in size, only about one and a half meters tall. Its body length was just shy of three meters, including its tail. However, it gave off an alarming level of threat to Wu Yunfeng.

"A mid-tier dark gold-quality beast! How is that possible!?" Wu Yunfeng's face changed abruptly. Just as he was about to order his subdued beasts to protect him, he saw that savage beast open its mouth and shoot out a column of scarlet flames, instantly engulfing him.

"Ahhh!…" a short scream rang out. Wu Yunfeng was swallowed by that column of scarlet flames, burned into a pile of ash almost instantly, and disappeared from this world.

At the same time, the handful of powerful subdued beasts that were jumping at Zhang Che let out sorrowful cries in unison, before turning into streaks of light and dissipating.

It was like that powerful Tier Six beastmaster had never appeared here at all. Only the spot he was standing on was burned to what resembled a ceramic glaze, with some barely noticeable ashes on it.

Greed was usually what killed those who were greedy.

Wu Yunfeng, a Tier Six beastmaster, was bent on obtaining the two "subdued beasts" of Zhang Che with astounding potential. He used all means to achieve his objective, and as he was about to succeed, Zhang Che had unexpectedly turned the tables on him, leaving him dead.

"The matter this time should be taken as a harsh lesson!"

Zhang Che stood up on his feet, uninjured. His eyes narrowed slightly, coming to a decision. -In the future, no matter how weak my enemies seem, I have to kill them the first chance I get. I mustn't have any greedy thoughts, or I might end up like Wu Yunfeng, losing my life without even knowing what hit me.-

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Chapter 151: The Big Four, Part Three

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Level: Four Star (Level 38)

Quality: Dark Gold

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: Excels at Wielding Flames, Unparalleled Defense

Weakness: Water and Ice Attribute Attacks

Innate Attribute: Fire Mastery, Normal Attacks Augmented with Fire Attribute

Skill: Liquifying Scarlet Flames. Breaths Out Scorching Scarlet Flames Up to 20 Meters Long, Able to Melt Steel Instantly, Lasts 3 Seconds. This Skill Is Extremely Exhausting of Vital Energy, Needs to Rest for a Full Day Before It is Able to Use It Again.

Halo: Fire Resistance

Potential: D Rank

Cultivating Directions: …Seeing the gorgeous, majestic Scarlet Flame Drake before him, Zhang Che couldn't put it together with that scorched, dead dog image he saw briefly that day.

This fellow faintly resembled a fierce dog, its fur golden-scarlet in color. Its mane, extending down its back all the way to its tail was especially eye-catching, swaying without any wind, exuding a mighty presence.

Its sides were decorated with golden spots, and it had two sharp, curved horns on its head. In addition, its sharp claws looked breathtaking, not to mention the faint scarlet flames dancing around its body…

It was comparable to the divine beasts of legends!

What gave Zhang Che the most satisfaction was the Scarlet Flame Drake's skill: Liquifying Scarlet Flames. Its might was simply frightening!

Wu Yunfeng was wearing a three-star dark gold-quality hard armor, and yet it couldn't withstand the horrifying skill for even one second before turning into ashes, scattering to the wind.

With such a powerful subdued beast, Zhang Che finally had the capability to keep himself safe!

Even Wu Yunfeng, a Tier Six beastmaster with an army of powerful subdued beasts, was easily slain!

Despite the fact that Wu Yunfeng was caught off guard, leading to him getting killed instantly by the Scarlet Flame Drake's skill, Zhang Che was sure that Wu Yunfeng wouldn't survive even if he was on guard, unless he used his flying beast to escape immediately.

"What a pity. That guy's beasts were all top grade ones, especially that Soul-Sucking Bugle Horn that could attack one spiritually. It was worth a fortune!"

However, Zhang Che didn't feel any regrets. Wu Yunfeng's death had proved that one mustn't be too greedy. Those who were too greedy died early deaths!

Zhang Che being able to turn the tables at the crucial moment and escape this ordeal unscathed was more important than anything else. As for Wu Yunfeng's beast cards, were they better than his own army of subdued beasts and pets?

Zhang Che still felt some lingering fear when he thought of that short exchange earlier.

The Soul-Sucking Bugle Horn's spiritual attack was truly frightening, he was unable to guard against it. If it wasn't for the rainbow crystal in his spiritual sea helping him out at the crucial moment, Zhang Che might not have endured the pain of his soul being tormented, and begged for mercy.

Zhang Che believed that Wu Yunfeng must have used this spiritual attack-type beast card to rob other beastmasters of their beast cards many times. Who knew how much human blood had stained his hands?

"Luckily the Purple Jade Condor's team made it in time!"

At the crucial moment, the Purple Jade Condor's team killed enough exotic beasts in the nick of time, and Zhang Che rose to Tier Four, giving him the opportunity to activate the Scarlet Flame Drake card and turn the tables.

They should be given huge merits for their work!

As Zhang Che thought of this, the Purple Jade Condor came flying back like a purple bolt of lightning, holding the Fiery Scorpion and Gale Wolf King in its talons.

Zhang Che turned his head to look, instantly overjoyed to see them.

Other than the Purple Jade Condor's talons, which were holding onto the other two beasts, their free pincers, claws, and mouths, were all holding onto beast cards of various colors.

They were truly good children of his; thanks to their daddy teaching them about frugality, they actually brought back all the beast cards!

Hmm, they should be given a huge reward!

Just as the overjoyed Zhang Che was about to set off for the area where he found the Vampiric Demon Carpet yesterday, to look for that exotic beast that dared to snatch his food away, he suddenly remembered that he still had another powerful beast!

Zhang Che reached out for his backpack again and fished out a golden beast card. He held it between his palms and quickly triggered spiritual resonance with it, summoning it.

Bam!

A loud thud rang out as a huge greyish-brown tortoise shell crashed into the ground, laying there quietly like a gigantic stone pillbox.

Immediately after, four claws extended out from the holes of the pillbox, lifting it off the ground. Following that, a foot-long tortoise head extended out as well, looking at Zhang Che with rounded eyes rather curiously.[Rock Tortoise]

Level: Four Star (Level 39)

Quality: Gold

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: The Defensive Strength of Its Shell Far Outclasses That of Steel, Its Skin is as Tough as Boulders

Weakness: Slow Movement Speed, Extremely Weak Internal Defenses

Innate Attribute: Rock Assimilation. Able to Travel Freely Within Bodies of Rocks; Has a Pocket of Space of Within Its Body Usually Filled with Rocks, Shoots Them as Projectiles When Enraged to Overpower Its Enemies

Skill: Rock Bullet Gatling, Able to Spit All The Rocks Stored Within Its Body in One Go, Bringing a Strong and Sustained Destructive Force. Cooldown Time: 20 Minutes

Potential: D Rank

Cultivating Directions: …"A huge beast like you is actually trying to act cute!" Zhang Che was speechless, facepalming himself.

However, this fellow's body was truly huge; it was even bigger than a compact car. One look at its shell, which was covered with profound patterns, and you knew it was extremely tough.

This is definitely a moving fort!

Zhang Che looked at the four-star gold-quality Rock Tortoise with interest, and told it to demonstrate its offensive power. "Here, here, we'll only know how strong are your defenses in the future. Show me your rock projectile attack first, and your skill after. Let's see how much of a difference in power there is between single shot and continuous shots."

The Rock Tortoise nodded, and then… it ran straight towards a huge mountain rock…

Zhang Che was baffled. -I asked you to demonstrate your attacks; why did you run there for?-

Before Zhang Che's confused gaze, the Rock Tortoise ran as fast as it could… and came up to that huge rock. Well, this fellow truly lived up to its slow movement speed. Despite running with all its strength, its speed was barely a dozen miles an hour; it truly left one feeling impatient.

In the next moment, the Rock Tortoise suddenly opened its mouth, producing an invisible suction force. The huge rock, which was about a dozen cubic meters in size, was actually sucked towards the Rock Tortoise's mouth. As it was about to slam into its face, it suddenly disappeared!

-What the heck?- Zhang Che rubbed his eyes, unable to believe what he just saw.

Although the huge rock disappeared very quickly, Zhang Che saw everything clearly. At that moment, the space around the huge rock caved in, and the huge rock suddenly turned into a tiny black dot and flew into the Rock Tortoise's mouth.

Zhang Che finally understood what was going on. It turned out that this fellow needed to replenish its ammunition, or it couldn't launch an attack! However, the way it replenished its ammunition was truly a little too shocking!

-Wait a minute…-

A flash of inspiration struck Zhang Che. Just as he wanted to grab hold of it, it disappeared without a trace, leaving him like the frisky monkey, scratching his head. He was so anxious that he nearly had a heart attack.

"The heck… what did I just freaking think of?"

Humans were often like that. The harder you tried to recall something, the more evasive it was…

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Chapter 152: The Scarlet Flame Drake's True Strength

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Edited by Aelryinth

"What exactly did I just think of?" Zhang Che tried his hardest to remember, but the flash of inspiration seemed to have disappeared entirely. There was no trace to pick up on.

He was close to swinging his fist at his head, but thinking of the serious consequences of his actions, he decided to let it go.

"No, I have to calm down!" Thus, Zhang Che shut his eyes and took deep breaths, forcing himself to calm down.

After about half a minute or so, his frustration disappeared. Zhang Che opened his eyes and looked at the Rock Tortoise, ordering it, "Come, shoot a rock bullet and show me."

Bang! The Rock Tortoise opened its mouth, shooting a football-sized rock bullet out. The projectile crashed deep into the earth, leaving a ten-centimeter-deep crater.

"Sii…" Zhang Che sucked in a breath of cold air. His constitution might be far better than a normal human's, but even he would end up with broken bones at the very least, if not death, if he was struck by the rock bullet.

However, this had no relation to what he thought of earlier!

Zhang Che seemed to have realized what he was thinking, and instructed the Rock Tortoise, "Are you only capable of shooting rock bullets? Can you spit out the entire mountain rock you just swallowed? Uhm, do it gently; don't treat it as an attack."

Although the cute tortoise had no idea why its master gave such directions, it still opened its mouth obediently and spat out a tiny black bead, which instantly turned into the huge rock from before. It slammed onto the ground with a loud crunch, causing the earth to tremble violently for a moment.

At that moment, Zhang Che came to a realization!

He tossed his backpack to the Rock Tortoise and commanded, "Here, suck this in and spit it out gently!"

The cute Rock Tortoise was very obedient. It opened its mouth and sucked the backpack in, then quickly spat it out gently onto the grass, without causing any damage to the backpack at all.

"Hahahaha…" Zhang Che immediately went wild with joy, letting out an extremely hearty laugh.

He was incredibly excited! This was even more worthy of celebration than rising to Tier Four and killing Wu Yunfeng!

It turned out that this Rock Tortoise whose mouth he had defiled was the best subdued beast! With its storage ability, Zhang Che didn't have to worry about not being able to bring many resources into the beast world, nor did he have to worry about the things he brought back being discovered!

A moving storage container like this was truly something necessary for doing all kinds of things!

Let alone anything far-fetched, Zhang Che could immediately be liberated from his burden.

Although Zhang Che usually didn't take part in battles, he had to always carry his backpack around. It truly wasn't very comfortable, despite its weight being inconsequential to him.

Zhang Che could not only let the Rock Tortoise carry his backpack for him, he could also hand over the Falling Star Model X to it. In truth, any extra burdens could be given to it!

However, there was a problem…

How much space was available in the Rock Tortoise's body? After storing Zhang Che's belongings, would it still be able to shoot rock bullets and use its Rock Bullet Gatling skill?

Zhang Che had the Rock Tortoise swallow as many rocks as it could. In the end, he found out, to his dismay, the fellow was unable to continue after swallowing about twenty cubic meters worth of rocks.

This meant that the space within the Rock Tortoise's body was about twenty cubic meters.

"Hmm, it is sufficient if it is only carrying my belongings!"

Although Zhang Che felt that the storage space was a little small, it was sufficient after thinking it through carefully. Being able to carry about twenty cubic meters worth of resources would probably be enough to last him a few years, wouldn't it?

However, it was obvious that he'd never remain in the beast world for such a long period without exiting.What followed next was testing whether the Rock Tortoise still had any offensive capabilities after storing Zhang Che's belongings.

After all, not only were the Rock Tortoise's projectiles powerful, their range was also quite long. It might be able to bring about some unexpected results under certain circumstances.

The Rock Tortoise shot a rock bullet from its mouth, which flew for nearly three hundred meters straight before exhausting all momentum and falling to the ground.

"Good, it's actually still capable of attacking!" Zhang Che laughed out loud, clapping excitedly.

As long as the Rock Tortoise's rock bullet attacks were still usable, its offensive strength wouldn't be reduced too heavily. After all, if they were somewhere with rocks around them, it could replenish its ammunition at any time, couldn't it?

As for the Rock Bullet Gatling's cooldown time, Zhang Che didn't worry about it. Under normal circumstances, a single shot was sufficient; what need was there for consecutive shots!?"Now, we should go find that Vampiric Demon Carpet for a talk."

Zhang Che had taken the matter of the Vampiric Demon Carpet snatching the delicacy from him to heart. He would surely get back at it if there was an opportunity to do so!

Now that the Scarlet Flame Drake had made its shining appearance, the Vampiric Demon Carpet, seemingly invincible among beasts of similar quality and level, was nothing worth mentioning. Could it possibly hope to withstand the Scarlet Flame Drake's Liquifying Scarlet Flames?

"Hmm? Right, the Scarlet Flame Drake needs a day's rest to recover its vital energy to use its skill again. Isn't the cooldown time a little too long?"

Zhang Che hurriedly looked at the Scarlet Flame Drake at his side. However, he realized that it didn't look fatigued, at least from its outer appearance. He wondered if it could continue using its skill.

In the description of its skill, it could last for three whole seconds, while it only took a second to kill Wu Yunfeng earlier. It should be able to spit flames for two more seconds, right?

"Forget it; I'd better not test it for now. If I used up all of its vital energy at once, I'd have to wait a whole day. That's too…" Thinking up until here, Zhang Che suddenly widened his eyes.

-No, that's not it!

-It's not cooldown time; there isn't any mentioning of that in the skill's description!

-Since it needs to recover vital energy, what method is there that is faster than absorbing the rainbow crystal's energy?-

Thinking up to this point, Zhang Che immediately recalled the Scarlet Flame Drake into his spiritual sea. As expected, he discovered a mini black hole had appeared above the dark golden beast card that represented this fellow, quickly devouring the surrounding rainbow mist for nearly a whole minute before coming to a stop.

Zhang Che couldn't hide the happiness in his eyes. He summoned the Scarlet Flame Drake again and had it unleash its skill. A column of scarlet flames shot out from the Scarlet Flame Drake's mouth, extending twenty meters ahead, burning for three seconds before the flames were extinguished.

Zhang Che recalled the Scarlet Flame Drake into his spiritual sea again. As he thought, it started devouring the rainbow mist rapidly again, recovering all of its vital energy after a minute and came to a sudden stop.

"This means that in the future, the Scarlet Flame Drake could use this powerful skill about once a minute!"

It was like Zhang Che had just discovered a new continent. He quickly had the Gale Wolf King use its skill and sent it back into his spiritual sea, to see if he could reduce the cooldown time by absorbing the rainbow mist.

Alas, Zhang Che realized that he was thinking too much.

Beasts with an explicit cooldown timer in their skill description were unable to reduce the cooldown time via absorbing rainbow mist.

Facing such a situation, Zhang Che didn't feel any disappointment, either.

He understood that this was probably a result of different rules. The rules stated a cooldown period after activating a skill before being able to use it again; not even a divine object like the rainbow crystal could change it. On the other hand, the Scarlet Flame Drake only needed to recover vital energy to use its skill, and could naturally make use of this method to gain stronger offensive powers.

-Is the Scarlet Flame Drake the only exception, or are there other beasts out there that can do this too?- Zhang Che wondered. Alas, he hadn't seen many exotic beasts above gold-quality. He was unable to clarify what the differences were.

There was no merit in thinking about something he couldn't find an answer to. Now, it was better for Zhang Che to find the Vampiric Demon Carpet and slay it, taking revenge for it snatching his food yesterday.

Zhang Che waved his hand, recalling all the subdued beasts to his spiritual sea. After that, he summoned the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon and mounted him. Riding a layer of fog, he flew to the valley where he had encountered the Vampiric Demon Carpet yesterday.

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As they flew to their destination, Zhang Che was a little lost.

The geographical features in this area were very similar all around. He realized he might not be able to find the place from yesterday. In such a largely-similar yet complex environment, it was simply a bane for people who couldn't recognize the way well!

Luckily, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon could remember the rough location. This fellow held a grudge for the Vampiric Demon Carpet snatching his prey, and had committed the location and directions to memory.

"I've heard of an old horse knows the way, but you, you're a young flood dragon that knows the way!" Zhang Che lamented, patting the back of the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon immediately let out a low groan proudly, as if to say, "Don't worry, daddy! Just leave it to me when it comes to remembering the way!"

Soon, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon descended towards a valley, indicating that he had left the water for too long and needed to recover his energy.

Zhang Che nodded. After landing on the ground, he was about to recall the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon to his spiritual sea, when the fellow flew straight towards a stream in the valley, diving in headfirst.

This fellow was a water-based beast, after all. Naturally it would miss being in water after such a long time.

Even though Zhang Che could provide energy to the beast in his spiritual sea for recovery, it wasn't as free as being in actual water. After all, a flood dragon belonged in the sea… well, there was no sea here, but the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was very content to swim in a stream.

Zhang Che didn't go look for the Vampiric Demon Carpet immediately. After a brief moment of consideration, he summoned Hanxue and the frisky monkey.

The frisky monkey, who had been out often, was calm. On the other hand, Hanxue, whose position as a mount was taken away, and whose lack of offensive capability led to it being caged up all this while, let out a long, excited neigh the moment he appeared, galloping around the narrow valley cheerfully.

Zhang Che couldn't help sighing deeply when he saw the excited Hanxue.

After all, these three pets of his were different from subdued beasts. No matter if they came in handy in the future, it was best to let them out and take a breather once in a while. They were creatures of flesh and blood, not to mention having souls of their own.

After galloping around happily for a few minutes, Hanxue returned to Zhang Che's side. He brought his face closer and licked Zhang Che's face, despite not having had his fill of fun yet.

"Ugh, you're so disgusting…" Zhang Che pushed Hanxue's head away with an "irked" look, then summoned all his capable subdued beasts with a wave of his hand.

Going forward, he had to look around to see if the Vampiric Demon Carpet was still in this area.

The Purple Jade Condor was responsible for surveying from the sky. It flew into the sky above the valley, its sharp eyes searching every corner to prevent the Vampiric Demon Carpet from sneaking away.

The capable land beasts, the Scarlet Flame Drake, Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander, and Gale Wolf King, spread out in different directions and searched carefully through the valley, especially damp areas."Woof!"Less than a minute later, Zhang Che heard the Scarlet Flame Drake's excited barking sounds from the side. It seemed like it had discovered the tracks of the Vampiric Demon Carpet.

"Is this fellow actually a dog?"

Not only did the Scarlet Flame Drake's head resemble a dog's, its cries bore a remarkable resemblance, too! It even seemed to have inherited a dog's talent for searching out its prey, as well. Could it be a close relative of the dog species?

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon immediately broke out of the water after hearing the Scarlet Flame Drake's cry. He flew over to Zhang Che, picking him up and flying towards the beast. Although he couldn't do a thing to the Vampiric Demon Carpet, being able to watch its demise was a pleasurable experience.

Just as they rushed over, they saw a carpet-like object quickly moving through the gaps between rocks in a damp area by closing and opening itself. On the other side, the Scarlet Flame Drake was chasing after it.

Seeing the carpet was about to disappear deep into a crevice, the Scarlet Flame Drake opened its mouth and breathed out a column of flames, engulfing the whole area.

"Ji…" Crackle, crackle…

Zhang Che clearly heard a short wave of jiji cries, followed by the notification of the Vampiric Demon Carpet's death ringing in his mind. After that, the sounds of rocks exploding entered his ears.

"What good luck, it actually dropped a beast card!"

From the notification sounds, Zhang Che knew that the Vampiric Demon Carpet, burned to ashes by the Scarlet Flame Drake's fiery breath, had dropped a beast card, and he immediately broke out into an excited smile.

Zhang Che thought that his luck was good, not knowing that among the upper circles in society, a complete and accurate set of data had proven that any mid-tier gold-quality or higher beasts were sure to drop beast cards. As for dark gold-quality beasts, they were also sure to drop beast cards, no matter their level!

This little brat with limited knowledge from the lower circle of society truly thought that his luck was heaven-defyingly good, smiled upon by the goddess of fortune every time he encountered top-grade beasts and obtained beast cards from them.

With the Vampiric Demon Carpet slain, the Scarlet Flame Drake immediately stopped its attack, but the rocks were still fiery red from the heat.

Zhang Che looked in that direction, and saw that the rocky area was like a small pool of boiling lava.

The Liquifying Scarlet Flames skill could instantly melt steel. Turning rocks into lava truly was no problem at all.

Speaking of which, it was strange that every time the Scarlet Flame Drake used its skill, Zhang Che wouldn't feel any change in temperature, despite being next to it. Conversely, the heat wave coming from the tiny pool of lava made Zhang Che feel a little uncomfortable.

"How strange!" Zhang Che lamented in confusion. He creased his brow; the Vampiric Demon Carpet card was in that pool of lava right now. It wasn't easy to get out. The Scarlet Flame Drake was too big to squeeze into the crevice.

Zhang Che knew that the crevice wouldn't be able to stop the Scarlet Flame Drake. Its sharp claws was sure to be able to expand the opening, but Zhang Che didn't want to go through that much trouble.

At his command, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon at his side let out a few mouthfuls of arctic breath at the crevasse, cooling the lava back into rock.

After that, the Rock Tortoise's huge body melded into the cliffs like it was entering water. A few breaths of time later, it reappeared from the cliff and spat out a golden card with four hexagrams in front of Zhang Che.

Zhang Che beamed with joy. With this, he didn't need to dig about in the cave laboriously after returning to the base. All he needed to do was to give an order to the Rock Tortoise to extract all the purple-gold crystals without damaging the wall!

As his excitement died down, Zhang Che looked at the Vampiric Demon Carpet card in his hand.[Vampiric Demon Carpet]

Level: Four Star (Level 37)

Quality: Gold

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: Likes Hiding In Damp Areas, Moves Swiftly, Unparalleled Defense

Weakness: Sole Weakness – Fire Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Blood Sucking. The Suction Pads on Its Belly Quickly Peel Off the Scales and Skin of Its Prey, Sucking Away All of Its Blood in an Extremely Short Amount of Time

Skill: Wind Travel. Able to Glide Over The Ground At Extreme Speed After Activation. Effective Range: 20 Meters. Cooldown Time: 5 Minutes.

Potential: C Rank

Cultivating Directions: …"It's an Original Combat Body-type, like I expected. This fellow's offensive method is peculiar, and is great at camouflaging itself. It's definitely the top pick for ambushing exotic beasts and other humans!" Zhang Che sighed. He couldn't help feeling sad for the potential enemies that might show up in the future.

The more complicated an environment was, the easier it was for the Vampiric Demon Carpet to camouflage itself. Others didn't have data eyes like Zhang Che did. Even if they saw the disguised Vampiric Demon Carpet, they would only treat it as a unique plant, and not be too wary.

At that time, the Vampiric Demon Carpet only had to activate its skill and close the distance, coiling itself around the enemy. They'd fall for it, no matter how powerful they were!This trip had finally come to an end. Zhang Che, feeling contented, let the frisky monkey and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon go hunt a few exotic beasts and had a roasting party by the stream in this valley. The master and pets had a satisfying meal and returned to the base.

After returning to the base, the Rock Tortoise melded into the rocks at Zhang Che's orders. It reappeared over an hour later, spitting out a huge pile of black shining crystals in front of Zhang Che.

Zhang Che made a rough estimation; they would take up about a dozen cubic meters of space! The density of purple-gold crystal was about half that of ordinary steel. So, how much would a dozen cubic meters of it weigh?

After a rough mental calculation, Zhang Che couldn't help sucking in a cold breath of air. It was truly an astronomical amount!The next day, Zhang Che woke up from his dreams smiling. He left the base after a simple clean up, riding the Purple Jade Condor back to the safety zone.

On this trip to the beast world, Zhang Che had a truly bountiful harvest!

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Chapter 154: It's Not The First Time, Anyway

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Edited by Aelryinth

At the outskirts of Qian Wei City, in the business district of the military camp where the spatial gateway was…

At the entrance of the Ding Feng Corporation's mall, the manager who brought the purple crystal card to Zhang Che was all smiles, sending Zhang Che to the door. "Take care, Mr Sun. Are you returning to the city? Should we arrange a vehicle for you?"

He had no choice but to act so politely. Zhang Yujie, their eldest young master, had instructed him to treat Sun Che with utmost respect whenever he appeared. This time, the amount of beast cards this mysterious expert took out was truly a little shocking.

Let alone bronze-quality cards, there were over twenty silver-quality cards!

Although there weren't any mid-tier cards among them, the purchasing power of Qian Wei City's citizens was only around this level. Low-tier yet high-quality cards were easier to sell instead, giving a higher profit margin.

Zhang Che smiled faintly and waved his hand, "No need. I have other matters to attend to."After refusing the other party's kind intentions, Zhang Che walked straight out of the military camp.

He had sold off the majority of the beast cards he had obtained in the beast world to the Ding Feng Corporation. The balance in his purple crystal card rocketed to tens of millions of dollars.

This was under the pretext that the dozen or so four-star silver-quality beast cards weren't taken out for sale. Otherwise, the balance in his purple crystal card would have nine digits!

Alliance dollars were now merely numbers to Zhang Che. He only needed to make sure that he had enough to spend. There was no need to sell the best cards he had.After returning to the city and swapping his identity, Zhang Che immediately gave his mother a call, telling her that he had returned. Then, he contacted his homeroom teacher, Han Sheqing, and learned that the beastmaster examination would be held collectively at Bei Du City on the twenty-fourth of June.

Qian Wei City was located in the south central area of the Hua Xia region, nearly fifteen thousand kilometers away from Bei Du City. As such, the city government office had decided to gather all the senior high schoolers who had applied for the beastmaster major on the twentieth of June and send them to Bei Du City with the army's airplanes.

The reasons why the army was responsible for sending them over were very simple. First, it was safer that way. There would be a convoy of fighter planes accompanying their journey. There wouldn't be any danger unless they encountered some terrifyingly powerful flying beasts.

Moreover, after the incessant hunting over the last few years, the number of high-tier exotic beasts around human settlements in Mercury was incredibly low. They were basically driven off to uninhabited lands.

Second, the number of high school seniors who were Tier Two beastmasters or higher was really not that high. Combining the dozen or so schools, there were only two hundred or so of them. Only four airplanes at most was needed to send them all to Bei Du City.

After all, most students around their age had only become beastmasters a short time ago. They still had to learn other subjects in school; it was impossible for them to have had many chances to practice actual combat, which led to only a small number of people achieving Tier Two or higher.

Of course, you had to exclude the young masters and princesses from rich households. It was very simple for them to advance in beastmaster tier initially. They could get an expert within their family, or hire one, to severely injure large amounts of low-tier exotic beasts and let them deal the final strike.

This was a common method of the rich or influential to nurture their youths, as it could prevent many accidents, reducing casualties.

"Then, Teacher Han, how many of them are from our school?" Feeling curious, Zhang Che couldn't resist asking. He wasn't sure of other classes, but their Class Three only had three people, including him!

"Thirty-six. Our school, Number One, and Number Three schools had larger populations, therefore our numbers are greater. The other schools only had a dozen or so, with some sending only a handful."

As expected of a small city. A small population would naturally produce a pitiful amount of teenagers that met the requirements.Zhang Che fell silent after ending his call with Han Sheqing. As he called Huang Tielan, a faint smile showed on his face.

"Ah, you're back, Zhang Xiaoche…" Just as the call went through, Huang Tielan's cheerful voice was transmitted from the other end. After that, they immediately fell into silence.

-What is this..?- Zhang Che blinked his eyes, not knowing what was going on.

Bam! Hualahuala…

An explosion suddenly rang out from the Zhang Che's personal terminal, and Zhang Che jumped up in fright. His heart immediately sank, not knowing what had happened on the other end.

Before he could ask, he heard Miss Tienan's frustrated voice, "Crap, I destroyed another set of equipment…"

Zhang Che heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly asked, "What do you mean, destroyed equipment? Also, are you okay?"

"The equipment for concocting beast card cultivation fluid," Huang Tielan answered loudly. She continued, "I'm fine, don't worry. It's not the first time, anyway. I noticed there was no way to salvage the reaction and immediately hid myself."

-Not the first time? Not the first time!- A warm flow surged within Zhang Che. He felt his nose turning sour. She was such a great girl, and yet he actually turned his back on her in the beginning just because she was overweight. Was his conscience eaten by the Scarlet Flame Drake?

Scarlet Flame Drake: Master daddy, can you not push the blame on me forcefully?

Originally, Miss Tienan had no need to work so hard. Wasn't she doing all this just to enroll into Bei Du University's beast card cultivation major and get a chance to ask Professor Sun Qilong to cure Zhang Che's mother?

At this moment, Zhang Che really wanted to tell her that he already found a dependable solution to cure his mother, and she no longer had to work this hard.

However, considering the implications involved, Zhang Che quickly suppressed his impulse. He urged her, "Don't work so hard in the future, Tielan. My mother's illness can still be controlled with the genetic restoration fluid. Even if we can't get Professor Sun Qilong to help, there are surely other ways to go about this."

On the other end, Huang Tielan smiled, saying, "It's fine. It's only an accident this time. If I didn't pick up your call, none of this would have happened. I'm very good at this now; I succeeded in advancing three different beast cards in the last few days. I'll surely enroll into Bei Du University's beast card cultivation major!"

Zhang Che was taken aback. "You're in the middle of an experiment! Why did you accept the call? How dangerous is that?!"

"Well, I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to find me when you got back from the beast world. It's fine, really! I'll be careful from now on."

Zhang Che's eyes turned sour. After thinking for a little, he said, "Then stop for today. I'll find a place and treat you to a meal. Just take it as rest, alright?"

"Ah, you're going to buy me a meal? Alright, alright!" Miss Tienan immediately jumped in joy. "Then quickly go look for a place and let me know immediately when you find one!"

"Mmm, I'll call you immediately when I do!"

"Mmm mmm! That's it for now then, bye!"

After he ended the call, Zhang Che realized a problem. He actually had no idea what Miss Tienan liked to eat, nor did he know of the famous restaurants and diners in Qian Wei City.

-What should I do?-

It's simple, there's always Goog- {TL: It's actually Bai Du, but I changed it to Google for ease of understanding.}

Well… there was no Google in this world, but you could find all kinds of information on your personal terminal. Zhang Che opened up a page and keyed in the search terms. A huge bunch of information popped up instantly, blurring his eyes.

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Chapter 155: You Might Not Believe Me If I Said This

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After searching for some time, Zhang Che decided on a buffet restaurant in the end.

Naturally, it wasn't because it was comparatively cheaper, but the variety of selection. No matter what Tienan liked to eat, there should be something there that suited her taste, right?

There was another shameful reason. That was, Zhang Che's appetite now was a little frightening. If he went to those high-class restaurants, he wouldn't be satisfied at all, despite the fact that he had already eaten a mid-sized exotic beast before he returned, and he wasn't really feeling hungry.

However, if he started eating, he wouldn't be able to stop at all!

Moreover, those to went for buffets were usually people with bigger appetites, right? In that case, he wouldn't be much of an oddity when he ate.

After picking the place, Zhang Che immediately notified Huang Tielan and flagged down a taxi, heading straight for his destination.In the car, Zhang Che thought of another matter and hurriedly called his mother. He told her that he would be having his lunch outside, and wouldn't be back so soon, and so she didn't have to cook for him.

"Xiaoche, are you eating with Xiaohuang?" Sun Lan immediately guessed the truth. She chuckled, reminding him, "You mustn't try to save money when you're eating out with a girl. Eat whatever you want. Also, you mustn't let the girl pay when the bill comes…"

"Alright, mom. I know that. I'm hanging up now." Zhang Che hurriedly ended the call, cold sweat pouring from his forehead.When he arrived at his destination, he saw Miss Tienan standing outside the buffet restaurant, smiling as she watched him leave the taxi.

-Miss, did you get your father to send you here with an airplane?-

It wasn't the first time Zhang Che witnessed Miss Tienan's speed. Just as he was about to go say hello after alighting, he suddenly froze on the spot.

-Miss Tienan seems to be a little slimmer now?-

Upon taking a closer look, that truly was the case. Although it wasn't very obvious, Zhang Che had met with her quite a few times recently, and noticed her change immediately.

Huang Tielan almost stamped her feet habitually when she saw Zhang Che standing there blankly. She suddenly thought of something and quickly stopped herself, saying with a beautiful smile, "What are you standing there for? Let's go, quickly."

"Ugh, oh, okay. Let's go." Zhang Che came back to himself and hurriedly strode forward, nodding. They walked up the stairs, side by side.

"Hm? Zhang Xiaoche, I noticed you're a bit taller now, and you also seem to be more muscular?"

Just as the two took their first steps together, Huang TIelan noticed the changes in Zhang Che. She turned her head, looking at him in surprise. She even raised her hand and made some comparison to confirm her discovery.

Zhang Che was speechless.

At this moment, a well-built man, over one hundred and ninety centimeters tall, was also about to take the stairs up to the restaurant with an enchanting, petite lady whose height did not even reach one hundred and sixty centimeters.

The lady saw Huang Tielan's movements and immediately broke into a chuckle.

It didn't matter if she was just chuckling to herself. The key thing was, her eyes actually revealed a hint of disdain towards Zhang Che and Huang Tielan.

In her eyes, she probably thought that this guy was a gigolo who lived off a woman. Otherwise, why would such a pretty boy find himself such a tall and fat woman?

Huang Tielan immediately felt displeased. "What are you laughing at? Don't you have any manners?"

The petite lady glared back at her, unwilling to show any weakness, "I'm not laughing at anything, though I wonder if your stools at home are tall enough. This guy probably can't match you even with a step, can he?"

The underlying intent behind her words were a little vicious. Although Huang Tielan didn't understand it, she knew it wasn't anything nice, either. Her cheeks immediately puffed up in anger, her eyes swept across that lady's chest. A flash of inspiration suddenly struck her as she stuck out her chest proudly and said disdainfully, "I'm still better than you; you're squashed into a flat board."

Cold sweat poured from Zhang Che's head. It truly didn't matter how old they were, when women started exchanging vicious words!

The sexy lady was like a cat whose tail got stepped on, immediately exploding in anger!

However, before she could spit out any more venomous words, the muscular man at her side quickly covered her mouth and picked her up like he was carrying a chick, running away in the other direction.

A golden beast card with three hexagrams was held up between Zhang Che's fingers since God-knew-when.

"Huff, how infuriating! If she dared to say anymore, I'll surely give her a good bea…"

Although she didn't know why the man pulled his companion away so quickly, Miss Tienan had yet to vent out her frustrations and was like an angry little lioness right now.

Just as she turned around and wanted to console Zhang Che, her eyes fell onto the beast card on Zhang Che's hand, staring at it blankly. Her expression quickly changed and exclaimed in excitement, "Woah, Zhang Xiaoche, since when did you become a Tier Three beastmaster? You even have such a good beast card! Hahaha, I knew you were the best!"

This was a huge surprise to Miss Tienan!

Zhang Che originally only intended to intimidate the couple. He didn't expect her to turn around so quickly.

However, Miss Tienan would find out about him becoming a "Tier Three beastmaster" sooner or later, anyway. It was no big deal letting her know about this a few days in advance.

"Let's talk upstairs. There's too many people walking around here."

"Mmm mmm! Let's head up first!" Miss Tienan held Zhang Che's arm, walking up the stairs excitedly.

Zhang Che felt awkward when he sensed the unfamiliar sensation on his arm, but was too embarrassed to withdraw his arm from her and could only let her hold onto it as the two ascended the stairs side by side.

-Wasn't Miss Tienan trying to lose weight?-

-Would some area lose weight, too?-

Zhang Che suddenly realized his thoughts were really evil…

He hurriedly shook his head and chanted the mind-clearing incantation in his mind, calming himself.After they went upstairs and found a seat, the two went off to get food of their liking. They returned to their seats and started helping themselves while talking about Zhang Che's rapid advancement.

As Zhang Che poured a plate of mutton into the pot of soup, spread out his free hand, and a golden beast card appeared on it. However, there were only two hexagrams on the card. It was obviously not the same one from before.

After Zhang Che showed the beast card, he didn't explain himself. Instead, he looked at Huang Tielan and asked, "Do you remember the Fiery Scorpion you gave me?"

"I remember. What about it?" Huang Tielan nodded, not fully understanding what he meant.

Zhang Che pointed at the beast card with his lips. "There, this is the one."

"Ah..!" Huang Tielan almost stood up from shock. She quickly covered her mouth after she yelped out. After that, she asked Zhang Che in disbelief, "How is that possible? Wasn't it one-star silver-quality when I gave it to you? Could it be that you…"

Huang Tielan wanted to ask if Zhang Che had also become a beast card cultivator, but she immediately realized how ridiculous that was. How could someone with no prior knowledge in this area cultivate a one-star silver-quality card to two-star gold-quality in just one month?

As such, there must be some other reason to it!

Seeing the shocked and curious look on Huang Tielan's face, Zhang Che smiled and slowly explained, "You might not believe me if I said this-"

Before he could finish his sentence, Huang Tielan nodded profusely, "I believe, I do!"

Zhang Che: …

Seeing Zhang Che suddenly stopped talking, Huang Tielan stared at him and urged, "Hurry, tell me! I'm listening!"

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Chapter 156: Where Do You Find The Energy To Lose Weight If You Don't Eat

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

Seeing Miss Tienan listening so attentively, Zhang Che collected himself and slowly began to recount (make up) his fortuitous encounters (lies).

"I was only lucky this time, walking into two three-star gold-quality exotic beasts fighting each other in the northeastern mountain range."

Miss Tienan immediately interrupted with a worried look, "Ah, then did they discover you?"

Zhang Che stopped talking, showing an innocent face…

"Haha, I'll stop interrupting. Continue!" Huang Tielan hurriedly covered her mouth.

Zhang Che nodded helplessly as he carried on his story, "I was curious and hid by the side, watching them. In the end, the three-star gold-quality wolf exotic beast triumphed over a panther-like exotic beast and obtained the final victory. However, it was covered in injuries as well, and on the verge on death."

"I felt that an opportunity had appeared, and hurriedly let my subdued beasts rush up and attack it from all sides. We actually slew that wolf king by chance, and even got a beast card! What surprised me even more than that the two exotic beasts weren't fighting for no reason. It turned out that a peculiar stalk of Five-Colored Spiritual Flower was growing there!"

In the end, Miss Tienan still failed to keep her mouth in check and guessed, "After that, the Fiery Scorpion rushed up and ate that flower, which led to its advancement to two-star gold-quality?"

Zhang Che nodded silently. After that, he started to scoop the boiled mutton out from the pot of soup, dipping it into the sauce and addingthem to both his and Huang Tielan's plate.

After completing this series of action, he wasn't in a hurry to have a taste. Instead, he added some meat balls, fish slices, and some other ingredients into the soup.

When he finally picked up a slice of mutton with his chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, Huang Tielan couldn't endure anymore and asked urgently, "Eh? Zhang Xiaoche, why did you stop? What happened after?

Zhang Che looked up at her and replied, "That's what happened."

Miss Tienan blinked a few times before finally reacting to this. She nodded understandingly, "Oh, so that's it."

Zhang Che pointed with his chopsticks and said, "Let's eat quickly. It's not as delicious when it's cold."

It was only then that Huang Tielan shifted her attention onto the food before her. She nodded and picked up a slice of mutton with her chopsticks, bringing it to her mouth, chewing it slowly.

However, Huang Tielan stopped eating meat after having a few slices of mutton, and specifically picked vegetables to add to her plate.

-So this miss is really trying to lose weight…- Zhang Che didn't point it out explicitly. As he made casual talks with Miss Tienan, he added all the cooked meat to his own plate, stuffing himself.

His previous expectation was right. Although he didn't feel hungry, he couldn't stop the moment he started eating, and was even showing signs of increasing intensity.

As the empty plates started to pile up before Zhang Che, Huang Tielan finally noticed something was amiss. She looked at Zhang Che worriedly, saying softly, "Uhm, Zhang Xiaoche, actually you don't have to try so hard. I'm already trying to lose weight."

Zhang Che was taken aback, not understanding what she meant.

After a short while, he finally understood the situation, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. -Miss Tienan actually thought that the reason I was eating so much was to catch up to her height and weight?

-Her way of thinking is really a marvel to behold…-

"No, I have to eat more, and grow more. Since I'm still young, I should make use of this chance. I'll surely grow to be as tall as you!"

This could be used as a foreshadowing of his rapid growth in the future.

Huang Tielan was deeply moved. She put down the chopsticks in her hand and nodded, saying, "Mmm, then I'll also work even harder to lose weight!

Zhang Che didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He pointed at the pile of vegetables in her plate and said, "Then you also have to be full to have the energy to lose weight!"

As time went by, Huang Tielan gradually realized something was wrong. The amount of food Zhang Che ate was truly a little too much, so much so that it was far exceeding what normal people could eat. She hurriedly stopped Zhang Che from adding more meat slices into the soup and shook her head, saying, "You can't eat anymore, Zhang Xiaoche. Your body won't be able to take it!"

Although Zhang Che really wanted to tell her that he couldn't stop, he could only go along with her intentions reluctantly when he saw the concerned look on Miss Tienan. He scooped out all the cooked meat from the pot and said, "I'll just finish these, then. It'd be a waste otherwise, and we'd be fined for it. Don't worry, I can take it. I realize my appetite has been especially huge lately. Perhaps I might even puff up before you know it."

"Hahaha…" Huang Tielan broke out into a laugh. "You're not a balloon! What to do mean, puff up!"

-Don't normal girls chuckle..?

-But, I don't seem to like that kind…?-

Hearing Huang Tielan's candid laughter, Zhang Che also let out a bright smile. After that, he exercised the chopsticks in his hands and finished off the huge plate of meat on the table.

Although he still wanted to eat, Zhang Che was worried of scaring Miss Tienan, and could only put down his chopsticks reluctantly.After eating their fill, the two went to the nearby park for a short walk before bidding farewell and going home to their respective mothers.

Naturally, Zhang Che wouldn't go home immediately. His appetite had been triggered. How could he feel at ease if he didn't eat his fill?

If he returned home immediately, could he possibly portray the look of a hungry ghost in front of his mother? It'd be strange if she wasn't scared to death.

Zhang Che didn't go to another buffet restaurant. He had another method to satisfy his stomach.

He found a deserted place and altered his appearance. After that, he found a bun shop and directly bought all their buns for takeaway, then brought them to another deserted place and started wolfing them down.

As for the matter of Zhang Che buying all of the buns, at the most others would be thinking that he was buying on behalf of some construction company to feed their employees. It wouldn't arouse their suspicion at all.

After devouring a few dozen kilograms worth of buns in one go and drinking two liters of water he bought together with the buns, Zhang Che finally felt full. There was no further desire from his stomach for him to continue eating.

"How strange. Is my stomach full of acid? How can I eat this much in one go and not show any changes externally?"

This problem had been bugging Zhang Che for days. It had been on his mind ever since the day he was altered by the demonic flower.

Not only did he realize his appetite had become countless times bigger, it also seemed like his strength was gradually increasing day by day as he ate without restraint. Although the increment wasn't obvious, he could clearly feel the difference.

-Was I really turned into a freak by that damn demonic flower?-

Zhang Che was terrified by his thoughts. He wondered what he would turn out to be if this continued on. What should he do if he punctured a hole in Mercury just by stamping his feet…

As he imagined himself turning into a monster with unlimited strength in the future, Zhang Che slowly walked back to his neighborhood. He climbed up the stairs and saw the new anti-theft door. He revealed a hint of smile as he knocked on the door, "Mom, I'm back!"

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Chapter 157: Depart, To Bei Du!

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During the following few days, Zhang Che would meet up with Miss Tienan outside every day, and he even gifted her the one-star gold-quality beast card.{TLN: The unnamed gold-quality card he obtained during his unlucky streak on his latest trip.}

Huang Tielan was overjoyed and gave Zhang Che a tight hug, making him realize the broadness of this miss's chest for the first time.

– Mmm, I really hope some part of her won't slim down after she lost weight… – Evil thoughts were born in Zhang Che's mind, fantasizing his future happiness.During the next two days, Huang Tielan didn't come find him any more. She had to practice concocting beast cultivation fluid to ensure her enrollment into Bei Du University's beast card cultivation major was a success.

Zhang Che was helpless about it and could only remain at home. However, this also freed him up to accompany his mother.

Sun Lan had stated that she wouldn't be joining Zhang Che in Bei Du City in the foreseeable future. She would only join him after Zhang Che's enrollment into a university in Bei Du City was confirmed and he had settled down.

Despite Zhang Che telling her that he was already a Tier Three beastmaster and was sure to enroll into Bei Du University, he was still unable to persuade her.

"It's fine, Xiaoche. It's not like mom will always be staying here. I'll head over to take care of you when your school term starts."

Left without a choice, Zhang Che could only stop trying to persuade her.

In any case, the examination shouldn't take much time. After he passed it, he could still make a trip back and fetch his mother to Bei Du.After his return, Zhang Che was a little unused to not having to battle day in and day out like he did in the beast world. Fortunately, he still had to practice his swordsmanship and archery, or he'd really feel that his bones were starting to turn rusty.

Originally, Zhang Che planned on making a trip to Ci Zhou City to order a custom-made recurve bow for the frisky monkey. However, he had to set off for Bei Du on the twentieth of June, and wouldn't have much time at home, thus he abandoned the idea.

After he arrived at Bei Du, would he not find better bows there?

It was the largest city in the entire Hua Xia region. Together with its surrounding satellite cities, the population numbered in the hundreds of millions! It went without saying that their neo-weapons research technology would be at the top, as well. How could their bow technology possibly lag behind the puny Ci Zhou City?

Zhang Che was already a Tier Four beastmaster. With his spiritual sea being thrice as large as that of ordinary beastmasters, he could employ a total of fifteen subdued beasts at one go.

However, his spiritual sea was only holding thirteen beast cards at the moment. The Wind Shadow Wolf and other beast cards that could no longer keep up with him had already been sold away.

Originally, Zhang Che planned on filling up the spots with two beast cards whose quality were more ordinary, to avoid drawing too much attention from others for exposing too much good stuff.

However, after thinking this through, it might not be enough to distinguish himself from tens of thousands of Tier Two student-beastmasters using only the three-star gold-quality Gale Wolf King and two-star gold-quality Fiery Scorpion. They weren't necessarily enough to guarantee his enrollment into Bei Du University. He might even have to expose a dark gold-quality beast to make sure everything went well.

Since that was the case, why would he fill up the empty slots in his spiritual sea with those trash beast cards? However, leaving two slots unused didn't sit well with Zhang Che, either.

As such, he placed two Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly cards, which he had fused to four-stars previously, into his spiritual sea, slowly raising their quality. Zhang Che was increasingly looking forward to the effects of the Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly's poisonous powder.

These fellows had the rarely-seen B-Rank Potential, and could advance to dark gold-quality at their peak. Not only that, when Zhang Che's fusion skill increased to level three, he could fuse the two four-star cards into a five-star card!

At that time, what changes would there be to reflect the powers of a five-star dark gold-quality Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly? Zhang Che couldn't wait to see it!

The two-star silver-quality variant he was using now was already capable of sending low-tier exotic beasts into a dazed state. If it was a five-star dark gold-quality one, could it directly influence the exotic beast into becoming his combat ally?

Although even if that came to be true, and the amount of time they would fall under control wouldn't be long, it would still be an extremely shocking ability.

If its powers truly reached that degree, Zhang Che would have completed the first steps of building an army of beasts. Other than his subdued beasts and pets, he could even command a group of exotic beasts. He could simply act rampantly in the beast world outside of the safety zone! {TL: Walk horizontally in the raws.}

"Such a pity that I didn't find any commander-class beast among the group of Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterflies. Wouldn't its potential be even greater?" Zhang Che felt a tad of disappointment as he fantasized himself commanding a huge army of beasts.

He decided that the next time he returned to Qian Wei City, he'd go back to the area where he discovered the Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly to look around. There was no reason for them to not have a boss-class exotic beast in such a huge group, was there?Four days went by in the blink of an eye. It was now the thirty-sixth year of the new age, twentieth of June, the day when all of the candidates set off for Bei Du for their examination.

As per his homeroom teacher Han Sheqing's reminder, Zhang Che woke up early and left in a hurry for the school after eating a bowl of noodles prepared by his mother.

Speaking of which, it had been hard on Zhang Che for the last few days. He didn't have a single filling meal at home; he could only make excuses that he was going out for a walk to leave the house and settle his meal problems… after changing his appearance.

This deeply troubled Zhang Che . – Will my appetite grow even bigger in the future?-

If that were truly the case, perhaps he could only go live in the beast worlds permanently!The gathering time at the school was eight in the morning. It was only slightly past six when Zhang Che left home. It might seem like he had plenty of time, but he had to disguise himself and have a proper meal first. So, he couldn't afford any delay at all, and went about with hurried steps.

As Zhang Che had expected, it was very close to eight o'clock when he finally reached the school. A convoy of large armored transportation vehicles was parked at the schoolyard. All of the candidates from Qian Wei City were assembled at the school, gathered next to the convoy under their respective teachers' leads.

As the Number Two School was the closest to the military camp, this time the candidates were all gathered here.

At eight o'clock sharp, everyone were gathered. An official from the city government office made a concise and comprehensive speech, motivating the candidates to bring out their fighting spirit and strive towards enrolling into a good school…

When the official's speech ended, all of the candidates boarded the convoy of armored transportation vehicles in a systematic manner, under the guidance of the teachers.

There were two teachers accompanying the Number Two School candidates. One of them was called Tian Shirong, the other Niu Feng. Zhang Che didn't know either of them. However, he was sure they weren't teachers from the teaching faculty. Otherwise, he'd have an impression of them, more or less. It seemed like they were the school's directors, or something similar.

Eight armored transportation vehicles were filled to the brim by over two hundred candidates and teachers, and they set off towards the military camp in the suburbs.Zhang Che sat in the vehicle. He saw the excited looks on the candidates' faces, watching them as they discussed about their long journey away from home. He suddenly felt very isolated.

-Could I still get used to the life of a student?-

After thinking for a little, Zhang Che couldn't help but fall silent.

This time, every one of them were specifically enrolling into universities that specialized in nurturing beastmasters. They would surely be very different from ordinary university students.

At the very least, the students who enrolled into this field of study were sure to enter the beast worlds or venture into the deserted lands on Mercury that were far from human settlements. There would be tons of hot-blooded battles to come, and unseen dangers similarly aplenty.

The true excitement had yet to begin!

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Chapter 158: Are You Surprised? Amazed, Even?

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The armored vehicles rumbled on, speeding towards the military camp a dozen kilometers away. The students in the vehicles were talking softly about the upcoming examination.

The passengers in the vehicle Zhang Che was on were mostly from his school. Everyone basically knew each other, so their discussions were lively.

A guy with a wide and flat face sitting opposite Zhang Che suddenly looked at him and asked, "Hey, Zhang Che, what do you think the examination this time will be like?"

Zhang Che was taken aback. He couldn't remember what the other's name was, only vaguely remembering that he should be his classmate.

There were three candidates from Zhang Che's class, but Zhang Che actually didn't even know what their names were. Naturally he wouldn't recognize the students from the other classes.

-So I'm actually this disconnected from the school?-

"Ugh, I have no idea." Zhang Che thought, -Would you even know?-

The flat-faced guy chuckled, "I thought you knew. Didn't Huang Tielan have any information regarding this? I heard her father is a big shot from our Qian Wei City's army!"

-Okay, is this brat indirectly saying that I'm a gigolo?-

However, they couldn't be blamed for having such thoughts, either. He only became a beastmaster a month ago, and he developed so rapidly, attaining the qualifications to take part in the universities' examination for enrollment into their beastmaster major. How else could he do that if he wasn't a gigolo and got help from Huang Tielan's family?

After thinking carefully, Zhang Che realized, -That really is the case, isn't it? If it wasn't for the Fiery Scorpion Miss Tienan gifted me in the first place, I wouldn't have developed so successfully, would I?

– Alright, it seems like I can't avoid the title of a gigolo now…-

The flat-faced guy's words caused the thirty or so people to break out into laughter.

Those who weren't in the know even whispered to their acquaintances sitting around them to understand the situation. After learning who Huang Tielan was, their laughter grew even more unbridled.

Zhang Che looked at the flat-faced guy, his lips pursed. He finally understood why he was trying to strike up a conversation with him. This brat harbored some evil motives!

However, Zhang Che couldn't be bothered to deal with these little men, either. Would a mighty falcon soaring high up in the sky care about the chirpings of a bunch of magpies?

On the other hand, the two accompanying teachers felt that the students were being a little too rowdy. Tian Shirong humphed and said, "Everyone quiet down a little, you're being too noisy!"

The sounds of laughters and discussions immediately stopped.

However, there were still many of them who were looking at Zhang Che, their gazes filled with disdain. -To think that with such a pretty little face, you'd actually live off of Huang Tielan, that fatty! How shameful!-

Meanwhile, the only two girls on the vehicle were lamenting to themselves, -Why did such a cool, handsome guy have to be blind?-

Zhang Che truly couldn't be bothered to pay any heed to them, and decided to shut his eyes and rest.

The convoy soon arrived at the military camp and they parked the vehicles at the open space by the airport in an orderly manner. As the car doors were opened from the outside, a huge group of young men and women swarmed out excitedly, taking in the scenery of the military camp curiously.

"Gather!" However, before they could satisfy their curiosity, four Second Lieutenants ran up to them and stood in a row. They gathered and split the civilians into four groups, readying them to board the airplanes.

A row of four airplanes were ready and waiting on the runway to their side.

At the same time, teams of fully-armed soldiers were standing in formation around the airport, giving off a stern aura. The teachers and candidates all kept their mouths shut without any prompting, and obeyed the lieutenants' orders, quickly gathering in a formation.

Just as the lieutenants were about to give the order to board the airplanes, a Major suddenly came running towards them and stood before the four groups. He swept his gaze across them and asked, "Which one of you is Zhang Che from Number Two School, Class Three?"

The Number Two School candidates all turned to look at Zhang Che at the same time, triggering a chain reaction, and everyone looked towards him.

"I am." Zhang Che was taken aback. -Why are they looking for me?-

The Major nodded and said, "Come with me."

Many of them who didn't know the situation were wondering to themselves if this kid had done something wrong and was found out. However, the situation didn't seem like it.

When Zhang Che followed the Major to the front of an airplane, those who knew insider information gradually came to a realization one after another. -Tsk tsk, this guy is really having it good!-

{TL: Living off of a woman is dubbed as eating soft rice in Chinese. They were actually thinking Zhang Che's 'soft rice' was really fragrant.}

Zhang Che, too, finally understood the situation. This must be the work of Miss Tienan!

-Dammit. With that, my status as a gigolo has thoroughly been solidified. I can't wash it away no matter what now…-

The Major opened the door to the cockpit and extended his hand very politely, inviting him in. Zhang Che could only go along with it and entered.

-So be it if I'm called a freaking gigolo. It's fine that I know what's really going on.-

The cockpit wasn't considered spacious, and was had a simple design. It was separated into the control cabin and a resting cabin. The wall separating the two cabins were tightly sealed.

The moment Zhang Che walked in, he saw Huang Tielan sitting on the sofa, turning her head around and looking at him mischievously.

"Haha, Zhang Xiaoche. Are you surprised? Amazed, even?"

He was indeed a little surprised, but amazed, not really.

Zhang Che walked up and sat down on the sofa, asking curiously, "What, did Bei Du University's beast card cultivation examination start too?"

"Not yet. The written test takes place at the end of the month," Huang Tielan replied, pushing a cup of fruit juice in front of Zhang Che. She continued, "But my grandpa asked me to go over a few days earlier, so I tagged along."

-Hmm? Is Miss Tienan actually someone from Bei Du?-

Zhang Che asked the question in his mind, and Huang Tielan nodded, "Right, but I haven't been back to Bei Du in five years, ever since I came to Qian Wei City with my daddy. I still prefer Qian Wei City. If it wasn't for my grandparents asking me to return in advance, I'd surely wait until I passed my written examination before going over."

Zhang Che sighed inwardly. -It seems like my bowl of soft rice is actually a huge bowl. Miss Tienan's background is actually much deeper than I thought.-Meanwhile, the teachers and candidates started to board the airplanes in an orderly fashion. Soon, the four airplanes got onto the runway one after another, ready to take off.

Zhang Che and Huang Tielan paused their conversation and sat properly, putting on their seatbelts.

When the airplane had successfully taken off and was in stable flight, the two continued their talk.

Suddenly, the door separating the control cabin and resting cabin was opened from the other side. A tall, muscular middle-aged man walked in, wearing a subtle smile.

Zhang Che was slightly taken aback, feeling that this middle-aged man before him looked a little familiar.

"Dad, why are you here too!?" Miss Tienan jumped out from her seat, an incredulous look on her face.

Zhang Che almost facepalmed himself. He really wanted to ask her… -Are you surprised? Amazed, even?-

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Chapter 159: You Have The Potential of An Expert

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Huang Juyun walked out from the control cabin, ignoring his surprised daughter. Instead, his attention was on Zhang Che. He smiled, "You must be Zhang Che."

"Uhm, I am Zhang Che. Greetings to Huang…"

{TL: In Chinese honorifics are used after their names, like Huang Jiang Jun(General), Huang Shushu (Uncle).}

Seeing the shining golden star on Huang Juyun's shoulder, Zhang Che stood up and subconsciously wanted to address him as General. However, Huang Juyun showed a faint smile and interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "If you don't mind, how about calling me Uncle Huang?"

"Alright, Uncle Huang."

Now Zhang Che finally understood why this man standing before him looked familiar. Wasn't he the man in the swordplay demonstration Huang Tielan had sent him?

Well, it truly was that a woman was born to leave her family. This girl actually taught him something passed on within her family!

Zhang Che felt even more touched!

Huang Juyun came to the sofa in the resting cabin, seating himself as he told Zhang Che, "Sit down, sit down." He continued, "I've long heard about you from Tielan, and I finally got to meet you today. You're truly a young talent, advancing to Tier Three in just a month. Even among those from influential households, there aren't many who could achieve what you did."

Okay, Miss Tienan actually told her father everything about his development…

"This is all luck. If it weren't for Tie… Tielan gifting the Fiery Scorpion to me, I wouldn't have come this far," Zhang Che replied humbly, nearly exposing her Tienan nickname, and got Huang Tielan rolling her eyes at him in return.

"No, there are no flukes on the road to success!" Huang Juyun said very seriously. "Any and all beneficial elements are part of your strength, including luck. You probably know this too; the annual casualties in the beast world aren't small, with many of them having a much higher starting point than you. But where are they now? Dead, with their corpses nowhere to be found!"

Zhang Che felt embarrassed hearing his future in-law praising him like that. He could only show a humble smile on his face, not interrupting him.

-It seems like this shameless fellow has made up his mind to live off of Huang Tielan. I even addressed him as father-in-law in my heart…-

"Right, your target this time is Bei Du University, isn't it?" Huang Juyun suddenly asked.

"That's right, Uncle Huang," Zhang Che nodded. He lamented inwardly, -It seems like this general has looked through all superficial information about me.-

It wasn't strange after thinking about it. If Zhang Che had a daughter of his own, surely he'd unearth all information, including his ancestors, about the guy who was about to snatch his daughter away.

"Hmm, the competition there might be a little intense," Huang Juyun said. He continued, "Uncle suggests that it's best for you to not hold anything back. Just show everything you've got. You don't have to worry about anything else."

His words were as good as a promise to him.

Zhang Che hurriedly nodded in acknowledgement, but he thought inwardly, -Does my future father-in-law know something about the content of the upcoming examination?-

It didn't seem very likely, thinking about it. This was a combined examination for all universities focusing on the development in beastmasters in the entire Hua Xia region. How could they possibly leak the content of the examination so easily?

Even with Huang Juyun's extraordinary background, it wouldn't be easy for him to find out the content of the examination.

"You don't need to worry, however. I feel that it won't be a problem for you to enroll into Bei Du University. You have the potential of an expert!" Huang Juyun said firmly, looking at Zhang Che.

"You flatter me, Uncle Huang. I'll do my best."

Zhang Che thought to himself, -Of course I know that I have the potential of an expert. The thing is, how did you know about that? How strange…-

"Alright, dad, get back to the control cabin!"

Miss Tienan slowly grew unhappy seeing her father talking on and on… She came over and pulled Huang Juyun up from the sofa, forcibly pushing him back to the control cabin.

Huang Juyun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, saying, "Alright, alright. I'll walk by myself. This girl…"

After Huang Juyun returned to the control cabin and shut the door, Huang Tielan looked at Zhang Che awkwardly and said, "Ha, uhm, actually my dad doesn't talk that much usually."

Zhang Che nodded, "Mmm, I know."

Every father in the world would probably be especially talkative when they saw their daughter's sweetheart for the first time, hoping to have an insight into their character, wouldn't they?

As such, Zhang Che was very understanding about it.

Without any seniors around, the two quickly broke into conversation happily. Their topic went from Zhang Che's examination, to Huang Tielan's upcoming beast card cultivation examination, and back to Zhang Che's experiences in the beast world…Before they realized it, the airplane had been flying in the sky for two hours, and was already over two thousand kilometers away from Qian Wei City. They were currently flying above an expansive, thick forest.

At that moment, a huge bird with silver fur covering its entire body and a wingspan of over twenty meters, suddenly turned into a streak of silvery light from the forest below, heading straight for the airplane, agitated by the noise it created.

"General, the convoy fighter planes sent us a warning, stating that a powerful flying beast is chasing us from the forest below."

"Get them to chase it away!" Huang Juyun replied sharply with a poker face, sitting on a chair.After a short while…

"General, the convoy sent us another warning. The target was too fast; the fighter plane's mini-missiles were unable to hit their target!"

Huang Juyun's brow finally rose up, and he gave the order, "Show me the video feed."

"Yes, General!"

In the next moment, the video feed on the large screen in the control cabin was cut in from the convoy behind them. A huge silvery bird was flying behind them, quickly shifting about, trying to dodge the pursuit of the mini missiles.

Evidently, this wasn't the first time this flying beast had come across the humans' weaponry. It knew that it mustn't come into contact with these flying chunks of metal, and could only try to dodge.

However, the missiles were launched from several fighter planes, with the ability to track their target. How could they be avoided so easily? The missiles were flying closely behind the huge bird, mere moments away from hitting the streamlined figure.

Right at that moment, a layer of green light flashed over the silvery bird. Its speed accelerated sharply, pulling open the distance from the missiles. After that, it opened its mouth wide, and a few crescent-shaped silvery light blades shot out from its mouth like boomerangs, slamming into the pursuing missiles and detonating them.

The violent explosions rang through the skies, alerting everyone on the journey.

"What happened? Is our convoy being attacked by exotic beasts?"

"Ah? Could it be that another airplane was destroyed by the exotic beasts? What should we do?"

The complexion on the teachers and students on the various airplanes changed.

Just as the people were falling into panic, a steady voice rang out from the public address system, assuring them, "Everyone, don't panic. Please get back into your seats and put on your seatbelts. The convoy planes will get rid of the pursuing exotic beasts very soon. Your safety won't be at risk."

-Right, we have a convoy of fighter planes. Why are we scared of the exotic beasts?-

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Chapter 160: A True Expert

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Once they remembered that there was a convoy protecting them, the teachers and students immediately calmed down. They started to discuss how strong this exotic beast was, and how long it would take the army to drive it away, or even slay it.

Alas, the ignorant fools in the transportation airplanes had no idea that the convoy was helpless against the huge silvery bird!

It detonated every missile that was pursuing it in one go, revealing a look of disdain in its eyes. Its figure turned into a streak of silvery light and gave chase to the airplanes ahead.

Realizing the urgency of the situation, the fighter planes could only launch another wave of tracking missiles. Even if they couldn't hurt the exotic beast, the missiles could serve to deter it briefly.

At the same time, the windows at the back of the airplanes opened, revealing rows of autocannons, firing at the flying beast.

Zhang Che heard the concentrated sounds of cannon fire outside. He said, "It looks like the exotic beast we encountered wasn't weak. It hadn't been eliminated yet."

He didn't show any signs of fear on his face.

The youths with the highest potential in Qian Wei City were sitting in these airplanes. Naturally the army would have a complete system of safety measures in place. It was impossible for a random exotic beast to be a huge threat to the entire convoy.

"Don't worry. My dad is here!" Huang Tielan said nonchalantly. She said it in such a matter-of-fact manner, as if there was nothing to fear as long as her daddy was around.

On the other hand, Zhang Che nodded in agreement. The moment he saw Huang Juyun earlier, he could vaguely sense that his spiritual strength wasn't weak at all. Huang Juyun's gaze on him was as sharp as a sword.

In the neighboring control cabin, Huang Juyun stood up and said indifferently, "Lower the flight speed and open a gap in the safety door."

"Ah? Yes, General!" The crew weren't shocked, but happy when they heard Huang Juyun. They immediately sprang into action, decelerating the airplane. When the airplane was slowed to a very low speed, a crew member operated the mechanism to the safety door, opening a tiny gap.

With the airplane's sudden deceleration, the huge silvery bird behind immediately closed the gap between them. It let out a clear cry, and treated this particular airplane as its first target.

"Ah, the exotic beast has caught up!"

In the passenger cabin, some students saw a huge silvery beast swooping at them from the windows, scaring them into screaming out loud!

If it wasn't for the fact that they had already put on their seatbelts, the passenger cabin definitely would have fallen into chaos.

Even so, dozens of students and teachers were so frightened that their faces were drained of blood, each of them screaming out loud.

Zhang Che, who was sitting at the front of the airplane, also saw the huge silvery bird from the side windows. He wondered to himself, -Why does it seem like the airplane has slowed down a lot?-

In the next moment, a streak of red light shot out from the airplane and turned into a beast made of scarlet flames, like the phoenix of legends, flying towards the silvery beast.

Zhang Che immediately reacted to this, and turned to Huang Tielan, asking, "Is that your father's subdued beast?"

Huang Tielan nodded proudly, "That's right. That is my father's strongest subdued beast, at seven-star gold-quality. Taking care of that exotic beast outside is only a small task!"

-Seven-star gold-quality!- Zhang Che was shocked. It was no wonder Miss Tienan was so confident.

A seven-star gold-quality beast! Even among high-tier beasts, it was considered top-tier! Many high-tier beastmasters might not even own such a powerful subdued beast in their life!

To make a simple comparison in battle strength, even Zhang Che's Scarlet Flame Drake wouldn't be able to put up the slightest resistance against a beast of such caliber. It could only accept its fate of getting crushed.

"Your dad is amazing!" Zhang Che exclaimed wholeheartedly.

"Heh heh, isn't that right?" Huang Tielan held her head up proudly, looking out the window.

Zhang Che also shifted his gaze outside the window. A battle of such caliber was rarely seen. Being able to witness the battle of such high-tier beasts would broaden his horizons.

While the two were talking, the phoenix that flew out of the airplane had confronted the huge silvery bird.

Whoo! A column of fire shot out, enveloping the sky. This was the phoenix's greeting.

Naturally, the huge silvery bird wouldn't dare to take it head on. A layer of green light flashed on its body. Its speed doubled instantly, easily dodging the phoenix's attack. After that, it opened its mouth, and a few crescent moon-shaped silvery blades of light flew towards the phoenix.

It wasn't polite to only be on the receiving end. You're not the only one with an elemental attack!

Zhang Che was dazzled by the sight. The huge silvery bird actually possessed wind element and light element… no, that silvery blade of slight was a metal elemental attack!

A double-elemental exotic beast!

This was the first time Zhang Che had seen such a thing!

It went without saying that some of the students and teachers also witnessed this. They couldn't help but worry about their future, afraid that the army's big shots weren't able to deal with the huge silvery bird. "Ah, this exotic beast is so strong. Can the phoenix handle it?"

"Fire restrains metal! But who knows what level and quality that huge silvery bird is? Though, it shouldn't be a match for it as long as there isn't too huge of a difference between them."

Those who were knowledgeable were much calmer. Although the exotic beast was a dual elemental beast, only its offensive method contained the metal element. Its wind element only supported its flight.

As expected, Huang Juyun's phoenix was not afraid of the flying beast's silvery blades of light at all. It spat out a scorching column of flames, directly negating the revolving blades.

Seeing its attack fail, the huge silvery bird left out an unwilling crisp cry, and actually turned immediately, diving towards the forest below. Its figure was like lightning, disappearing from everyone's sights in a few breaths' time.

"Eh? This beast is decisive!" Huang Juyun exclaimed. He recalled the phoenix with a wave of his hand, then ordered the crew to shut the safety door and accelerate, catching up to the rest of the convoy.

This encounter actually ended on such a dull note. It really left the spectators feeling dissatisfied.

Even so, Huang Juyun was helpless about it. The huge silvery bird was a wind elemental beast. Its speed was top-notch. Even if his phoenix was stronger than it, the phoenix couldn't catch up to it if the silvery bird was unwilling to engage in battle.

Moreover, his objective on his trip was partly to ensure the others' safety. He had already fulfilled his duty by driving the attacking beast away. Whether or not he could kill the huge silvery bird wasn't something he was concerned with.

"What a pity. If there was another swift subdued beast by the side restraining it, the huge silvery bird definitely wouldn't get away!" Zhang Che sighed. This fruitless battle truly left one desiring more.

After lamenting, he couldn't help but wonder, -I wonder when will I become a high-tier beastmaster and have such powerful subdued beasts?-

However, he was immediately filled with confidence. With the rainbow crystal, did he have to worry about not having powerful beasts?

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